Sentence examples for cleared timber from inspiring English sources

That remains to be seen, because hitherto the finance for palm-oil plantations has come from the sale of cleared timber.

It's woodsy around here, but beyond a bend the land opens up, revealing an enormous, mostly finished mansion, in a moonscape of cleared timber and blasted rock on one side, and new sod and blacktop on the other.

Speight said that the couple, who had just moved into the three-bedroom house about a year ago, promised to help him build a home on the property and that they cleared timber for the site -- a job for which Speight thought he had done the lion's share of work.

Sustenance workers were employed chiefly for on-site preparation, road construction, foundation excavation, clearing timber from the reservoir basin, and on some concreting operations.

An increase in human population, particularly in China and Nepal, has seen the red panda's bamboo forest homes cut down and cleared for timber, fuel and agriculture land, pushing them to more remote, fragmented – and often unprotected – mountain areas.

In the 20th century, as more land was cleared by timber extraction, Christian Filipinos, mainly from the Visayas archipelago, migrated to Basilan in considerable numbers.

Since the late 19th century, pine rocklands have been cleared for timber, agriculture, and urban development.

Some of its trees are cleared for timber, but more are cleared to create grazing land for agriculture.

Beginning with the first settlers, much of the land along White Deer Hole Creek was slowly cleared of timber.

This was Michael Washington, 57, who leads an eight-worker crew clearing timber around Birmingham.

Next he had to live on the land for five years and demonstrate proof of improvements like farming, clearing timber or building a house.