Hi HappyWanderer, thanks for your sighting. It looks like your sighting contains multiple species. To help us verify each species, please submit each species as a separate sighting. You can edit this sighting and click the duplicate button to make a duplicate of the original sighting. This is the standard response - the species I think are in your sighting are probably apple box and a mistletoe. More close ups please. Might be hard for the mistletoe. barb
Hills Ridges Buffer as far as I remember, I'm not sure about rules there. My "good luck" wish referred to convincing Parks to tackle them - too large for volunteers. Even if I'd successful frill I'd need permission; presumably Parks wouldn't like the idea of a row of dead trees close to residential...