1) if the trees were on the applicants property, timber theft did not occur, by definition
2) you apparently only quote an application, we don’t know what the final permit and requirements said
3) wasn’t there public notice prior to starting the project?
Brevity is your friend on legal forums.
Was there a site plan which showed which trees were remaining filed with the county? Whose property were the trees on?
This is similar. How do you have a place like Minitoka, Sand Creek, Manzanaar, and eastern seaboard slavery sites I haven’t been to without criticizing some of the figures of the past...