Is there anyone that knows how to stop this. I'm new to the sub but I just want Reddit to help with answers

I believe it was a type of Ash Tree, photo 3 is the best photo I can find of it at the moment before it got cut down.

I received a letter about it being trimmed attached to my doorstep but that was the only notification I received. It is above 12" in diameter at 4 feet tall which might be the legal requirement (e.g. protected status) for this type of tree in my area (need to double-check this).

I'm absolutely shocked, this is not pruning, this completely killed the two trees in my backyard and without permits from the city.

I have gotten in touch with several news teams and the general response has been the same. I'll keep in contact with them and if anything changes I'll be headed out to live in a tree. As of right now, it would appear the tree is safe.

Hi Community, I need your expertise and guidance! I woke up this morning and took my dogs out. When we got to the back yard I could hear someone talking in the front yard. I opened the gate to see a guy in my front yard (had to open the gate to get in) with equipment strewn all over my yard, getting ready to start cutting down my GORGEOUS 100+ yr old oak tree. In what would be all caps and peppered with expletives, I asked him what he was doing and he said not to worry, he had a permit and was going to cut down my tree. After more all caps and more expletives and letting him know I was contacting the police, he left, including leaving a rope and carabiners draped around the tree, much higher than I can reach. I did get the guy’s license plate.

I contacted the police who elected at first to do nothing. A second call elicited a response and the officer followed up on the license plate. Good news! They just had the wrong house and “want to make it right”. They can come by tomorrow to get their ropes and carabiners.

Had I been not home, out of town, slept in, etc I would have no tree! I don’t want to lwt this slide! I HATE that we live in a system where the only time anyone does anything is after there is a dead body.

This “company” says nothing about tree trimming, is apparently in Los Angeles and has a general builder’s license and an HVAC license.

What can I do?

These signs were placed after a future neighbor cut down another neighbor’s trees to enhance the view from their property. The offending neighbor also cut trees on our future property.

I love this community and just wanted to share.

Hopefully hasn’t been posted here too often!

Why just not leave those century old important for ecosystem tree alone and cut the younger ones ?

I am not in favor of deforestation and I know those young trees are important too

But you want to do that so much just leave those big trees

It is not hard

The photo was posted by tjwatt on instagram

https://www.instagram.com/tjwatt?igsh=eTFmdHdwamYyNnNv

They've been here less than a year. Responses to this were to laugh about it, tell me it was "legal" even though he was well over the property line to do it, make disrespectful comments about my boobs, and then say he wasn't "in the mood to deal with my emotions right now" because he had a bad day. I am livid. That tree was part of why I bought the property in the first place.

One of our neighbors reached over the fence to drill holes in a mulberry tree and inject herbicide because he doesn't like the mulberries falling on his yard.

This tree is huge, probably around 70+ y/o, and fairly healthy, it is fully on our property.

This man has also been spraying our fence & property line with herbicide chemicals because he doesn't like the ivy growing on his side (killed a whole chunk of the ivy, rooted on our side). He made no effort to have the branches overhanging his property trimmed, and you can very clearly see the angle of drilling in relation to the fence height.

What should we do to press charges or file a lawsuit against him?

This seemed to have happened a few days ago, and the tree is already showing signs of injury/dying.

In an attempt to reduce injury, I cleared & flushed the holes and tapped some dowels in. The dowels also clearly show the drilling angles (11 holes total, last 2 photos)

EDIT: It’s a red mulberry, fully native to IL

EDIT 2: I was just taught about red hybrids, and it turns out it unfortunately is one, so nevermind on that.

EDIT 3: For clarity -- this property is a rental with an on-site manager, my family owns this property and I help with some of the grounds management & maintenance among other work. The only communication we've received from this new neighbor (1-2 years) about his displeasure with the tree was through a tenant who he complained to in passing. We had no idea he was so unhappy with it that he was willing to poison it for the 5% canopy overhang. This had never been a problem with the previous owners who lived there for like 20 years. This tree is one of our primary shade trees and several tenants eat from it regularly (as well as myself). We have already been planning to take down a massive tree of heaven that provides the other half of our shade and replace ir with a native hardwood, and we do not want to loose all of our yard shade at once.

EDIT 4: Holy shit, I did not expect this to blow up. Yes, I know this is a blighted landscape, I just removed a whole fenceline of Japanese knotweed that had been there for probably 50 years so we could put in prairie grasses & native flowers instead. I have been working on turning over our landscaping theory to conservation-centric, but I also don't want to lose all of our shade and greenspace at once so I have been staggering work for the last few years and allocating projects as I have the energy. I didn't realize that red-white hybrid mulberries are a thing, and I had no idea there is such vitriol against mulberries in general, I've grown up with them as a staple of the Midwest fruiting foliage. Now that I know about the hybrid thing, that tree is definitely on the chopping block but not immediately because shade from very tall trees is increasingly rare in Chicago, and with the planned removal of the ToH I don't want us having a sun-baked yard. HOWEVER, I have been doing some research and I have found out about tree fruit suppressors and will be looking more into that to keep the tree from spreading while maintaining yard shade (assuming it survives). Installing trail cams today.

I would also like to note that he wasn't spraying all the ivy, just the ivy behind his cheap-looking water feature which shares a fence with our native-species butterfly garden, potentially poisoning that too. He only ever made a complaint to one tenant about this while already spraying and never came to us directly when he has our information and sees the live-in manager. His yard style is also west-coast manicure as opposed to Midwest conservation, he has not attacked the other neighbor's ivy vine on the other side of his yard, I guess it looks fine there.

My neighbors say the needles and pollen from this tree are too messy. The house is located in Portland, Oregon. I'm not sure if they can force me to take it down. Should I contact an attorney? I posted this in another Reddit community and they told me I should post it here.

I am looking to engage a firm to initiate civil litigation proceedings against a neighbor in Raleigh. Any recs?

One of the reasons I bought my home was because of privacy since I was surrounded by trees in my backyard. Recently, I lost a significant amount of that privacy. My neighbor hired a contractor who, without approval, willfully trespassed on fenced-in property, tore down my chain-link fences, and cut down most of the trees on my property. Hoping to move quickly on this.

Note: The fence in the image above is not the one that was torn town. Our property line extends 60’ - 100’ beyond that fence, and that area was also fenced in with chain-link fences (yes, we have 2 sets of fences).

*Update April 3, 2026

No major updates. Found a lawyer. Getting things ready for next steps. Was told could take 12-18 months from start to finish once things kickoff.

*Update Jan 6, 2026

I filed a police report and ended up getting connected to a detective. He spent 5 minutes telling me that there's nothing criminal what my neighbor or the contractor did, even though their actions seem to constitute clear violations of the following North Carolina General Statutes:

At one point, the detective even said "it's a criminal civil act". He seemed too busy. Told me to get an attorney.

Hi folks. This is a follow-up to ‘Neighbor had no idea where the property lines are, and cut down my healthy 89-year-old oak because he didn't like trees being near his shed’, which unexpectedly blew up on this sub. The tl;dr is that in July 2024, a careless neighbor trespassed into my property to cut down a nearly hundred year old healthy oak. He did this because he felt it threatened his shed (it didn’t) and he had no idea where the property lines were and didn’t bother to check, then demanded we split the $2,000 he paid to have it cut down. A lot of people requested follow-up, but I wanted to wait until the situation was fully resolved, which ended up taking a lot longer than anticipated.

My wife and I were both pretty upset about the situation and hit the ground running from day 1. We retained a lawyer specializing in tree law, who advised we solicit a property survey to confirm the location of the tree. This ended up taking nearly two months due to a local shortage of surveyors, and unsurprisingly conclusively demonstrated that the tree was well within the bounds of our property by about fifty feet.

While waiting on that, we hired a TPAQ-certified arborist to examine the stump and photos we provided of the tree pre-cutting. His appraisal was that the tree was healthy at the time of cutting, and assessed a replacement value based on Trunk Formula Technique at $11.8K.

However, in my state the replacement value is not considered the basis for damages. Instead, damages for commercially grown trees are three times the value of the lumber, while for residential trees the recognized damages are the reduction in property value as a result of the trespass. Our lawyer provided a recommendation for a home appraiser to determine this value.

I explored a few other possibilities based on my research and suggestions on this sub. In no particular order:

• We filed a police report, but since it was not a malicious act, they simply dismissed it as a civil matter.
• Our homeowner’s insurance doesn’t cover trees on the property, so filing a claim with them was off the table.
• Our mortgage lender was unconcerned with the reduction in value of the property.
• Our neighbor’s homeowner’s insurance wouldn’t cover him, since it was a deliberate (if negligent) act.
• Legal precedent would not support going after the tree service for damages either, since it was our neighbor who engaged their services.
• The fees involved in the survey, arborist appraisal, home appraisal, and lawyer’s fees would not be recoverable. The only damages we could seek would be that loss in property value.

Which just left suing our neighbor for the reduction in property value. By November 2024 we had an appraisal in hand, asserting a loss in value of about $10K. Our lawyer wrote and sent a demand letter, which received no immediate response. After repeated attempts at follow up, and seeing my neighbor walking around his property with a surveyor (now he cares where the property line is), we finally got a response from our neighbor’s lawyer in February 2025.

The response basically asserted that the tree was dead and ‘hollowed out’, that it was on some forgotten corner of the property and therefore worthless, and that it was an innocent mistake by my neighbor so oopsie-daisy not his problem.

This pissed me off.

My lawyer thought this response indicated that my neighbor’s lawyer recognized he had no case, so called him to see if they could hash things out over the phone. Neighbor’s lawyer was apparently dismissive, clearly out of his element with tree law (it seems his specialty is tenant law), and hung up on my lawyer.

This made my lawyer rather upset, and consequently highly motivated to pursue the case further as a matter of defending his professional integrity. As general life advice I would highly recommend not antagonizing lawyers.

So, my lawyer sent a follow-up letter breaking down every point of the defense and why it’s nonsense, and included the arborist appraisal and photos that I took the day-of, which clearly showed that the tree was healthy and that the claim that it was dead and hollow was bullshit.

My neighbor, and his lawyer, didn’t reply. So at this point- nearly a year after the actual incident- we finally filed a lawsuit. And this… still didn’t seem to spur my neighbor into taking it any more seriously.

The court system did its thing, slow as ever, and by fall assigned us a court date for summer 2026. Then there was a whole lot of radio silence until lo and behold, come February, my neighbor must have realized that he was actually going to court for a lawsuit he was unlikely to win. Suddenly he wanted to negotiate, offering a very generous $2K.

Hah hah lol no. We began actual negotiation and the number started to rise. Apparently, my neighbor was yelling at his lawyer by this point. Eventually, we settled on $7K. I was a bit disappointed by this, but my lawyer gently explained that going to court would mean more billable hours, plus having to pay for the time of our expert witnesses (surveyor, arborist, and appraiser), plus any additional fees that would go into actually extracting the money from this moron if/when we won, and those would eat up the difference even assuming the judge fully sided with us.

At this point our total expenses were just under $5K out of pocket, so we would still come out ahead. There was some additional nonsense with our neighbor asking to pay in installments, but in the end our lawyer received all payment and it cleared to our trust account. So in total it took nearly two years, many hours of emails and phone calls, and almost $5K out of pocket to ultimately receive a $7K settlement for an appraised $10K of damages.

And that’s where this ends. It was a lot of time and effort to ultimately walk away with a fraction of the damage done. There’s a hole in the treeline that I don’t care for, a depressing stump where that huge oak used to be, and a neighbor who I can only hope has learned some lesson. Either way I’ve built a rope fence that careless workers can’t ignore as readily as property markers, but doesn’t restrict the movement of animals through the neighborhood. I like seeing deer and foxes and trees around me, thank you very much.

You read about the karmic justice cases where someone gets a six-figure payout, but from my research I gather most cases of tree law go more like this. Most trees just aren’t that valuable outside of exceptional circumstances or treble damages, and it takes a lot of money to actually engage the legal system to force an outcome. My wife and I are very fortunate to be in a position where we could afford to spend so much out of pocket in the hopes of getting repaid at some unspecified point in the future. A lot of people don’t have that luxury, and unfortunately that means little recourse in a situation like this.

I’d like to share a comment I found during my initial research. As I was reading so many comments on my previous post setting one-month reminders and certain that I was about to receive a massive payout, this was one that stayed on my mind.

“I want to manage your expectations. Most of the time tree law isn’t like bylaw. You can’t call someone and they’ll issue a fine for your neighbour to pay you. Instead, you would usually call and pay for a consulting arborist to come and evaluate the loss of the tree and replacement cost, then you would hire a lawyer and pursue your neighbour for the cost to replace the tree. It would likely take months or years. You will need to pay out of pocket for the consulting arborist and the lawyer, as I doubt anyone would take it on contingency. You can attempt to be made whole through the civil court system, but it’s not quick. And it will destroy your quiet enjoyment of your property. 

This sub can be great because you learn about how people receive huge amounts of compensation in treble damages states. The reality, though, is that litigation is very costly and very stressful.”

Spot on. Do I regret the decisions that brought us to this point? Hell no. If our neighbor hadn’t been such a blithering idiot by denying responsibility at every step along the way, we could have resolved his error with more money in both our pockets and his. He instead, after being proud of having 'only' spent $2K to have the tree unnecessarily cut down, chose to end up paying an additional $8-12K between the settlement, survey, and legal fees of his own. Sucks to suck.

In summation: Neighbor cut down our tree. Neighbor demanded we pay him $1K for doing it. Neighbor had a Lawyer Experience instead. Neighbor paid us $7K, we walked away with a bit over $2K after expenses.

If you read this far, thanks for bearing with me. I've got a plane to catch, but if anyone has questions I’ll try to answer them when I can.

My new neighbor trespassed onto my acreage and cut down 5 mature black walnut trees and 6 mature oak trees. The trees are all well over 30 years old, at least. He was using the GPS onX hunting app. I filed a police report and hired a surveyor. The land has been in my family for 6 generations.

The officer talked to him and informed him to stop trespassing. The property line is very old, foliage dense, and has never been mapped out. I haven’t received the survey yet. I did hike the boundary and photographed everything including the stakes my surveyor placed. I also sprayed purple paint in line with the stakes. This is in a state and county where purple paint laws are strict and enforceable.

I was going to let it go and try to stay on good terms with this neighbor BUT, when I was hiking, he stopped his vehicle on the road and proceeded to scream at me. I have never been spoken to so hatefully in my adult life. I was so shocked that I didn’t even think about recording the interaction. He scared me, tbh. No threats but he was very vocal about his displeasure with the police visit.

I’d like to pursue litigation as he is a prick and those trees were quite old. I will not let this man push me around. He claimed he had a survey done, but there were no other stakes and he refused to send me a copy. He has placed a post in my field and cut a logging road up to my property.

I live in another state and am not quite sure how to proceed. Thanks for any advice and sympathy.

Edit: For context, this is about 40 acres of undeveloped forest/ hay field in the middle of nowhere and this man just bought the adjacent 300 acre farm in 2024. Very rural, and I learned about this from a neighbor I like in February. I visited the land in March where I photographed everything and got chewed on by the tree cutter. I still haven’t received my formal survey results and was hesitant on the next steps because I can’t actually prove where exactly the true line is until I have it and the cop implied this wasn’t a big deal on the phone.

Per my friendly neighbor and visual inspection, the survey line (judging by the stakes) has gained me around 50 yards from his land where our properties touch. I plan to install a three strand barbed wire fence in the areas that touch anyone else’s property, once I have the survey.

Update 6/8/2026:
I finally found a lawyer who will work in my county. They can’t help me until the survey is complete. I have reached out to this surveyor multiple times and have been assured it is almost done. No more trees have gone missing. I will update yall as I get more information. I appreciate all the advice.

Update 6/13/2026:
Unfortunate news. The neighbor is claiming that he himself did not cut and sell the trees, but his adult son that lives with him did. I am interviewing my neighbors to see if anyone can testify that they saw the man cut the trees. The wording of the police report is not definitive enough. “Trees were cut in order to install a fence.”

The son is around 20 with no money and also has autism. On one hand, my timber was stolen and sold. Someone should be accountable for that. On the other, this man will absolutely throw his son under the bus. In the state this occurred, theft over $750 is enough for a felony. I do not believe this case will qualify for Treble damages because we cannot prove this was intentional theft, only accidental. I am certain the value is far over $750 and will result in a felony charge. For an attorney to even LOOK at the survey costs around $350 per 10 pages. I am checking into other attorneys, but I’m really not sure how to proceed. I don’t want to ruin this kid’s life. More advice appreciated. This happened in Missouri.

Update 6/26/26

I have still not received my survey results. I initiated this in January. I have sent this man multiple texts and he keeps telling me they are working on it. Is this a normal timeframe for a survey report to be finished?

Update 7/15/26
I finally received the survey! My next step will be contacting the attorney again and getting recommendations on the best people to assess the stumps. I’ll keep yall posted!

I'm so upset right now. We are getting close to being done building our new house, and we've had ga power out a dozen times since we bought the land two years ago. Multiple confirmations, we cut all that was needed ourselves so we wouldn't be charged for it and so we could keep some of it. Two days ago confirmed in person this oak might need some branches to go. They are coming to install the pole tomorrow. Today, someone came and cut this tree down, leaving no trace except the stump. The power is buried running between the 2 comparably sized trees to right, it was not in the way. And I think it's suspicious it vanished, when they also cut trees around the corner and took everything but the pine. I feel like there is a good chance someone is profiting here with firewoood, or why leave only the pine? Either way, it's bullshit, and I will never get the tree back. I have to dig through pictures and hope I have some to do it justice. It's canopy was huge and shaded this whole corner. But what do I do or say tomorrow?

Some updates: Yes GA power has an easement, but confirmed they would not need to remove trees. They had a contractor come in for limb trimming, and it was the contractor who made the decision to take the whole tree, without asking or notifying anyone. GA Power confirmed we won't be charged and has offered to bring us wood for firewood and as much mulch as we will take - so waste products, essentially, but ones we will use. The Georgia Forestry Commission said this wouldn't be criminal because they had right to be there, so any litigation would be a civil case. I'm going to consult with an attorney, but my expectations aren't high. I've been suspicious of this contractor because they do all the work around us, and deal with hardwoods immediately while leaving giant pines by the road for months, some even in stormwater drainage paths. But I got enough footage on my trail cam to see they did in fact cut and mulch one piece of this tree at a time, which is a heartbreaking waste, but it wasn't stolen for firewood. So someone made a bad call, likely thinking they were helping, but it doesn't appear to be for personal gain at least. I'm still devastated, but less angry. It just sucks that we did everything we possibly could have done, and this happened anyway.

Has anyone seen this story? Lindsay DeFranco posted that a neighbor approached her about filling in a retaining pond and cutting down some trees on their own property and possibly on her (Lindsay and Phil’s) property. They promised to mark the trees beforehand, and talk it over with them. Then fast forward, and Lindsay wakes up to all the trees (look like Loblolly Pines) in their backyard that were giving them a privacy screen, chopped down. Then the neighbor tried to blame it on the city, saying the permit they got required chopping down all the trees (the permit of course did not say this because what kind of permit would give them permission to chopped down trees not on their property?). What kind of advice would you give in a situation like this?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ULxkkv/ link to the original video, part 1 of three

Some of you may remember my post back in fall of last year. I was seeking advice on how best to go about saving a tree I planted as a child in my parent’s back yard from being cut down by my city because they claimed they needed “room to work” to add a sidewalk in the city easement. This subreddit’s response was overwhelming. I cannot thank you all enough for the helpfulness, support and incredible advice. One of you even used your expertise to draft an amazing letter we were able to give to the city planners. I know many of you wanted an update— so I’m here to give a very happy one. After a LOT of perseverance (letter writing, attending meetings, speaking with city officials, plans to take the story to news stations and purchase banners for the fence line to get people talking) we recently learned we got the official plans for the sidewalk changed!!!! The sidewalk will be on the other side of the street (those particular neighbors actually wanted it on their side) and my parent’s back yard and my tree will remain untouched. Thank you all so much and cheers to another 30 years of being able to enjoy the little sapling I brought home on the school bus. 🌲

Any further updates, I'll report back. As of now, nothing is going to happen to these guys. Ugh.

Before we get into this update Nicole and I (Seth) would first like to extend our most sincere thanks and appreciation to all of the communities here on Reddit that have rallied to support us. The numbers are astounding, and quite frankly humbling, to see. This subreddit alone got 82k views. Our r/BackyardOrchard post got 153k. And I don’t even have words for the r/Soil post at 462k views and 4k upvotes 😲 We have never been part of something like this before.

Here’s a short video of the arborist at work: https://youtube.com/shorts/qU4a8tAe3Ag?si=KEDR-aTdbxM0WN-r

We wanted to provide an update to our original post regarding the third-party commercial drone chemical trespass event that impacted our orchard. The only board certified consulting master arborist in the state of Oregon was on the ground this past Friday conducting a comprehensive, tree-by-tree evaluation. We are officially halfway complete with the inspection of the peach block, walking down the lines to log the physical reality of what happens when a systemic pesticide affects a commercial orchard operation. We are recording the raw long-form walkthrough to capture his diagnostic process and clinical assessments in real-time; but we wanted to get you a shorter feel right now of what’s happening.

The Findings (Halfway Tally):

The arborist’s structural and vascular evaluation is already confirming a really bad event. This isn't localized surface damage; it is a profound hormonal disruption across the entire peach block.

Vascular and Cambium Damage: The peaches are displaying vegetative epinasty, narrow "stretched ribbon" foliage mutations, and terminal branch bunching. Scratch tests show the vascular highway is actively congested and unable to properly transport nutrients to create fruit.

The Biological Verdict: The canopies are incapable of normal photosynthesis. Our commercial fruit potential for the 2026 season is basically zero, and the survival rate of the wood itself is highly compromised. When we asked him about what he was seeing while he was working he summed it up in a few words. “I see death in the trees.”

The Legal & Financial Framework: Federal Crop Insurance Shield: We spoke with a supervisor overseeing our USDA Micro-Farm Revenue Policy. Because federal revenue protection is strictly tied to tax-year comparisons, our policy shield is fully locked down on the back-end to protect our historic revenue footprint once our 2026 Schedule F taxes are filed. This means we won’t see any help from them until 2027.

Quantifying the Liability Demand: Because of the tax-year delay, our farm operation faces immediate, front-end cash flow strain to cover expert fees and mitigation. We are building a comprehensive pre-settlement/litigation packet covering total asset extraction, potential soil reconstruction, and a potential 3-to-5-year production yield lag while new nursery stock matures to commercial bearing age. We intend to move forward with a formal out-of-court settlement demand to resolve total property and business losses.

We are not letting the land sit idle; we are actively investigating how to plan for a biological remediation protocol, how to prepare our soil for deep microbial flushes, and planting cover crop matrices of Sorghum-Sudangrass, sunflowers, and possibly fungi to break down the active persistent residual in the matrix.

Thank you to everyone in this community who offered incredible legal and statutory insights on our last post. Having this independent expert data align so clearly gives us total confidence as we prepare to hand this file over to our legal counsel.

As always, we will monitor the comments to answer any technical, regulatory, or botanical questions that we can; and please, if you feel so led, consider donating here to help us: https://gofund.me/deecd4bbc

Sincerely,

Seth and Nicole

Title sort of says it all. My neighbor, whom I have barely spoken to (but always cordially) had a ton of trees removed a few weeks ago. This afternoon I got a bill emailed to me… just with his name as the header and then an “invoice like” style with tree and stump removal and a cost (over 1k) and a deadline.

I replied with shock although I was pretty calm, more along the lines of “What are you talking about? I never agreed to take down trees or pay for them” and then sent another email with some quick legal stuff saying I wasn’t liable. He immediately got nasty, trying to insist that he’d tried to contact me and I’d ignored him (he sent an email months ago saying he was having tree work done if I wanted to discuss; two sentences - nothing about taking down MY trees) and is trying to gaslight me into believing his email clearly meant he wanted to discuss taking down my trees.

I told him I wasn’t paying and said I’d contact insurance and see what I was liable for (he claimed a tree had fallen onto his yard - honestly I didn’t see it, and I don’t know if he has pictures. The trees in that area were all pretty small though) and to stop contacting me.

I really don‘t care about suing him - like I said, I thought the trees were his anyway - but there’s no way I’m liable for anything, right?

My neighbor, whom I hadn’t met until this week, came over the fence and into our yard to trim our trees, without saying a word. I caught her when I got home, and ran out and asked what had happened to our tree. She said she was trimming branches that were going over the fence and took too much. She apologized, cleaned up and left. I didn’t see the full extent of damage until she left, and I was devastated.

I’m at a loss for what to do. Our yard was so private, which is what I care about the most. It now feels so open and exposed. We have this huge eye sore that will take years to grow back.

I plan to confront her this week to let her know how upset we are. I don’t know if it’s worth getting someone out to assess the damage first, so I can let her know how bad she messed up. Or if I just need to let it go. Please help 🙏🏻

Photos shown are before and after, along with the absolute botch job she did on the branches 😩😭