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  2. University of California, Berkeley oak grove controversy

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    The oak grove sits at the base of California Memorial Stadium and at the time of the controversy consisted of about 90 trees: 65 oaks, including 38 coast live oaks, 25 pittosporum, 8 redwoods, 5 pines and 1 or 2 cypress, cedar, pepper and yew trees. [7]

  3. Deforestation - Wikipedia

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    Trees are cut down for use as building material, timber or sold as fuel (sometimes in the form of charcoal or timber), while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock and agricultural crops. The vast majority of agricultural activity resulting in deforestation is subsidized by government tax revenue . [ 89 ]

  4. Chipko movement - Wikipedia

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    By now, the issue had grown beyond the mere procurement of an annual quota of the ash trees and encompassed a growing concern over commercial logging and the government's forest policy, which the villagers saw as unfavourable towards them. The Sangh also decided to resort to tree-hugging, or Chipko, as a means of non-violent protest.

  5. CuriousCT: Here's why so many trees are being cut on ... - AOL

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    Jul. 22—William Greeley of Deep River does not mince words when asked about his request that The Day examine the state's highway tree-cutting practice as part of our CuriousCT reader engagement ...

  6. Dismemberment - Wikipedia

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    The cords that force the trees together are then cut; and, in the elasticity and power of this spring, the body of the thief is torn asunder, and left thus to hang divided on each separate tree. The inflexibility of the King in this point has given to the roads a security, which, in former times, was little known.

  7. Disturbing moment people are seen tearing bear cubs from ...

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    The footage, captured on Tuesday and posted to social media, showed a group of approximately six people in Buncombe County, North Carolina plucking black bear cubs from a tree and pulling them ...

  8. Tree sitting - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Lumberjack - Wikipedia

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    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.