Luckily, everyone saw the futility and unfairness of that and it didn't go anywhere.
I believe in letting people do what they want with the property they own. I know that can get sticky if someone decides to put in a junk yard, put a bunch of pigs at the property line next to their neighbor's house or something like that, but cutting their own trees? Come on! It's not good to clear-cut, but I think the neighbors were overstepping their bounds.