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Illegal logging is the harvest, transportation, purchase, or sale of timber in violation of laws.The harvesting procedure itself may be illegal, including using corrupt means to gain access to forests; extraction without permission, or from a protected area; the cutting down of protected species; or the extraction of timber in excess of agreed limits.
Sacramento City Code 12.56.020 states that “private protected trees,” which are regarded to have special historical value by the City Council, require permission to perform “regulated work.”
According to the most recent tree ordinance adopted by the West Orange Township Council in June, property owners are not allowed to cut down trees without a permit from township officials ...
Legal provisions for salvage logging can be used to justify cutting down damaged trees in areas that are otherwise protected from logging. [ 6 ] Salvage logging may also encourage arson , either after a failed lumber sale or to gain permission to log in protected areas, such as old growth forest or regions set aside for the protection of ...
Grant Haber was accused of cutting down the 33 trees in Kinnelon to improve his view. A prosecutor said restitution costs could top $1 million. North Jersey man fined $13K for cutting his neighbor ...
A specialty form of logging involving the felling of trees for the production of railroad ties was known as tie hacking. These lumberjacks, called tie hacks, used saws to fell trees and cut to length, and a broad-axe to flatten two or all four sides of the log to create railroad ties. Later, portable saw mills were used to cut and shape ties.
Thinking about trees in that sense, you may have more rights to cut limbs that are encroaching on your property from a neighbor’s tree — but you don’t do so without assuming legal risk or ...
Tree sitting is a form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose, to protect it from being cut down (speculating that loggers will not endanger human lives by cutting an occupied tree). Supporters usually provide the tree sitters with food and other supplies.