MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas — Neighbors in a Porter-area community say they are devastated and angry after discovering that a large tree containing a long-established bald eagle nest was cut down earlier this month. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirms it has opened a criminal investigation into how and why the tree was removed.

Residents Roxane Dumouchel and Allison Dechiro, who have lived in the Highlands community for nearly three years, walked KHOU 11 News' Michelle Choi through the wooded area where the tree once stood. The women say the nest had been active for years and was well-known throughout the neighborhood.

"This is the main tree that they were in," Dechiro said, describing it as a tall, healthy tree that rose above the surrounding canopy. It was the only tree cut do

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