The bill eases limits on deforestation and extends an amnesty to some developers who cut down trees illegally in the past.
In the 1960s and 1970s, farmers were sometimes required to cut down trees as a condition for getting credit from the state.
To build up his legs, core, arm and hands, he and his brother and father would toss tires, dig holes and refill them, push wheelbarrows full of dirt, cut down trees with an ax and split wood.
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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Crawford-Brown is impressed that the family hasn't cut down the trees surrounding their home.
Armed gangs patrol the grounds, cut down the trees and hide weapons, stolen cars and the people they kidnap among the sagging bungalows of the old hotel.
"Saddam Hussein cut down many palm trees, both in the city and in the desert, " said Pieri.
But, says an expert at one non-governmental organisation, Chinese companies come in and cut the trees down.
Leo, our Dutch friend, went out to the woods to cut down little Christmas trees for the wards.
That doesn't mean we should cut down all the trees in these regions.
The Israelis have also cut down thousands of trees near the Jewish settlements.
In March, they pushed a city government to not to cut down 600 old trees, and organized help for earthquake victims in Japan.
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.
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.
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.
" Girls were also urged to apply to natural resources the principles of conservation practiced at home, recognizing that "in this United States of ours we have cut down too many trees and our forests are fast following the buffalo.
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.
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.
Working fast, unnoticed by Palestinian landowners in the nearby Arab village of al-Mughayir, the settlers cut down nearly 200 olive trees, of which 70 belonged to Mr Abu Awad.
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.
Generally, if more trees are cut down then there would be fewer of them to absorb the carbon emissions.
To make room for it to be towed through the city, dozens of trees were cut down and traffic signs removed.
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 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.
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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Trees - once cut down at will - are now nurtured and cared for by local people.
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, scouring Cambodia's jungles for evidence of illegal logging, ask a passing farmer where trees are being cut down.
So many trees have been cut down for charcoal that there's nothing to stop heavy rains from causing mudslides and flooding.
Soil on land where trees have been cut down quickly erodes away, rendering it useless, so more land soon has to be cleared.
"Thanet Council's planning officer has stated 20 trees will be cut down, but the speakers at the demonstration felt that not one tree should go, " he said.
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