A HOMEOWNER faces thousands of dollars in fines after allegedly cutting down trees in a local park.
The trees had been cut down and abandoned on the forest floor for a better view.
Charlie Trost, the former Tennessee commissioner of revenue, is accused of cutting down a dozen trees at Savage Gulf State Park, an old-growth forest between Nashville and Chattanooga.
The trees were cut on state-owned land along a park boundary to improve the view from a private home, according to the state’s Department of Agriculture…