Matt Stanwick, who lives in a townhome group in North Raleigh with his spouse, was going for walks his puppy River by means of the community on a rare sunny working day in mid-January when he found there weren’t as a lot of trees as there applied to be.  Wherever dozens of oak trees once stood in modest pockets about townhomes, there have been now just scattered saplings, dogwoods, and pines standing among the the many stumps hidden by fallen leaves. In some spots, about a quarter of the trees had been chopped down. In other people, up to half of the trees were absent, according to Stanwick.  For the…