Telling white pioneers that they could no longer shoot game in the boundaries of Yosemite National Park to feed their families or cut down trees for firewood was much harder.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, farmers were sometimes required tocutdowntrees 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 tocutdowntreesto let cattle suck moisture from the leaves, but most of the romance was in the telling, not the living.
Before we reach our rest-stop each night, Juvva races ahead tocutdown a few trees so the reindeer are better able to pull off the wispy beards of lichen that hang from their branches.