CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 30, 1997 | RICHARD WINTON, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Sierra Madre takes its trees seriously. Where else but a place labeled "Tree City USA" could a flap over arboreal supervision fell an entire city commission? How else to explain the air of scandal hovering over the town--replete with charges of pilfered paperwork, menacing messages and attempted bribery--all because of trees?