American Dream

LAKE TAHOE - A California business executive has agreed to pay a $50,0000 fine for poisoning trees to enhance the view from his Lake Tahoe home. John Fitzhenry apologized Wednesday to officials with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency saying "This has been the most foolish thing I've ever done." Fitzhenry poisoned three, 40-foot Jeffrey pines on his $2.4 million property in Dollar Point on Tahoe's north shore. Fitzhenry hopes the fine would go toward future protection and restoration of Lake Tahoe.