One Ypsilanti man is fighting the man by climbing a tree the man wants to cut down.
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Bill Riney is heading back into the trees.
Nearly five months after he prevented the removal of large pine trees lining his backyard by camping out in them, the Ypsilanti Township man said he intends to climb them again after losing in court today.
"Those trees probably took 40 years to grow, and I can't imagine my backyard without them," Riney lamented after Washtenaw County Circuit Judge David Swartz granted International Transmission Company access to his property to have the trees removed.
"We're just heartbroken about it, and they're going to cut them down unless we stop it," he said.
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