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  2. 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]

  3. Lynn Valley Tree - Wikipedia

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    The Lynn Valley Tree was one of the tallest known Coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii), at a measured height of 126.5 meters (415 ft). [1] It was cut down by the Tremblay Brothers, at Argyle Road in 1902 on the property of Alfred John Nye in Lynn Valley, now part of metropolitan Vancouver, B.C. In 1912, Alfred Nye told ...

  4. Liberty Tree - Wikipedia

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    The Liberty Tree in Boston, illustrated in 1825. The Liberty Tree (1646–1775) was a famous elm tree that stood in Boston, Massachusetts near Boston Common in the years before the American Revolution. In 1765, Patriots in Boston staged the first act of defiance against the British government at the tree.

  5. “Home Alone” House Owners Recall Finding Out ... - AOL

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    They go down and go out and it looks like snow." John jokes, "That all looked fine for the movie, but those potato flakes sat on the ground, turned yellow, and started getting pretty odorous after ...

  6. Donar's Oak - Wikipedia

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    In Hubertus Lutterbach's fictional expansion of the Boniface correspondence, Boniface relates the entire event in a long letter to Pope Gregory II, commenting that it took hours to cut the tree down, and that any account that says the tree fell down miraculously is a falsification of history. [19]

  7. Woman wants to chop down tree she is 'allergic' to - AOL

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    The 41-year-old wanted to cut the pine down but the tree is legally protected and she has been told it was "unlikely" South Norfolk Council would permit the move. She said: "This tree is causing ...

  8. Prometheus (tree) - Wikipedia

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    The tree, which was at least 4,862 years old and possibly more than 5,000, was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and United States Forest Service personnel for research purposes. [1] Those involved did not know of its world-record age before the cutting, and the circumstances and decision-making process remain controversial.

  9. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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    Tree felling: The selected trees are cut down using chainsaws, harvesters, or other mechanized equipment. The felled trees are then prepared for further processing. Timber extraction: Once the trees are felled, loggers extract the timber from the forest by removing branches and cutting the tree trunks into logs of appropriate sizes for transport.