Greenwich — The Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Agency will gather Wednesday afternoon to discuss the illegal tree-cutting that Gov. Ned Lamont and his neighbors conducted on their land last year, including plans to rehabilitate the area and possibly potential fines.

At least 180 trees, if not hundreds, were cut down last November in a protected wetland last year without permits, according to Greenwich officials and documents.

The workers cut down trees on land owned by Lamont, his neighbors the Viks and their neighborhood association, the Ashton Drive Association.

The crew also crossed into abutting land owned by INCT LLC, an company whose owners are upset their trees were damaged, according to documents and testimony presented to the IWWA.

Lamont has since taken at least partial blame for the cutting and his team has been working with the INCT team to come together on a plan to restore the habitat with new trees, according to documents and correspondence submitted to the IWWA.

These efforts to work together, however, have not been enough, according new documents made public this week.

"The failure to embrace the concept of preparing a robust plan as expected, if not outright demanded by the IWWA Director and the Conservation commission chairman, and to listen to/work with the affected neighbors, is a clear indication that the motivation here is not meaningful restoration but the money it will take to do so," INCT's environmental consultant Jay Fain wrote to Lamont's consultant on May 16.

Lamont's consultant, Matthew Popp, told the IWWA in a May 20 letter that he modified his plans after visiting the site, but that he opted against "dense planting of uncommonly large trees."

"The larger sized trees recommended by Jay Fain were not proposed because larger trees are known to have a higher mortality rate than smaller ones," Popp wrote. "A goal of our restoration plan is to create a dense understory, especially bordering the watercourse for shading purposes. The tree spacing used on our plan will allow for this."

The IWWA will meet at 2:30 p.m. to discuss what happens next with the competing plans. The meeting will be conducted online via Zoom.