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A municipal court judge on Thursday denied a request to delay the trial of a Kinnelon homeowner accused of having 32 of his neighbor's trees cut down to improve his view of the New York skyline ...
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 ...
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.
A tree preservation order (TPO) is a part of town and country planning in the United Kingdom.A TPO is made by a local planning authority (usually a local council) to protect specific trees or a particular area, group or woodland from deliberate damage and destruction if those trees are important for the amenity of the area.
The Christmas tree cutting program began in the 1950s, when rangers began noticing that people were sneaking into national forests and cutting trees — sometimes even selling them to the public.
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.
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Salvage logging is the practice of logging trees in forest areas that have been damaged by wildfire, flood, severe wind, disease, insect infestation, or other natural disturbance in order to recover economic value that would otherwise be lost.