In the 1960s and 1970s, farmers were sometimes required to cut down trees as a condition for getting credit from the state.
Gore's father could find poetry in the hardship stories of his early days in Possum Hollow, recalling droughts so bad that they had to cut down trees to let cattle suck moisture from the leaves, but most of the romance was in the telling, not the living.
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Before we reach our rest-stop each night, Juvva races ahead to cut down a few trees so the reindeer are better able to pull off the wispy beards of lichen that hang from their branches.
Leo, our Dutch friend, went out to the woods to cut down little Christmas trees for the wards.
In March, they pushed a city government to not to cut down 600 old trees, and organized help for earthquake victims in Japan.
The bill eases limits on deforestation and extends an amnesty to some developers who cut down trees illegally in the past.
The restrictions also mean that an exporting country now has an obligation to determine that the number of trees being cut down is not detrimental to the survival of the species.
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It said the felling would be "a race against time" to ensure the trees were cut down before they became prone to infection from the fungus-like pathogen.
The point of the project, which should be completed by 2014, is to allow Nepal to participate in international carbon-trading schemes that pay poor countries with lots of trees not to cut them down.
Lowenstein also says that most farmers plant up to three new trees for each one that is cut down and vast tracks of land set aside for trees mean thousands of acres are saved from urban development.
It provides loans to small farmers, trains them in agronomy and sells them seeds and fertiliser, as well as the saplings they must plant if they cut other trees down for fuel to flue-cure their crop.
In Los Angeles, the space shuttle Endeavor's final journey is causing controversy, as more than 400 trees are being cut down to make way for the spacecraft.
When a Florida developer cut down all the trees around what used to be a baseball field and started putting up condos, the town said, Enough.
The site claims that 5 million trees are cut down each year to make phone books and that only 22 percent of those phone books are properly recycled.
Even on the (optimistic) assumption that the police try their best, efforts to stop deforestation may fail unless it becomes more profitable for people who control the forest to leave trees intact than it is to cut them down.
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When a Florida developer cut down all the trees around what used to be a baseball field and started putting up condos -- "more of those damned chicken coops, " says Rick Kelley, Loon Mountain's general manager -- the town said, Enough.
To make room for it to be towed through the city, dozens of trees were cut down and traffic signs removed.
On the western boundary stood a line of ash trees that he wished, in dictatorial moods, to cut down, because they filled his garden with seeds.
Hundreds of trees are being cut down on a Devon estate to prevent the spread of a killer plant pathogen with no cure, site managers have said.
Generally, if more trees are cut down then there would be fewer of them to absorb the carbon emissions.
So many trees have been cut down for charcoal that there's nothing to stop heavy rains from causing mudslides and flooding.
They wanted him to stop responding to the complaints of smallholders in the area that their crops were being destroyed and their trees cut down.
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