The island was completely forested in the 15th century, except for small agricultural clearings, but European settlers cut down the great timber trees for building purposes and cleared the plains, savannas, and mountain slopes for cultivation.
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.
His company, Forest for Tomorrow in Huntington Station, takes hardwood timber cut down from Long Island homes, construction sites and road projects and sells almost all of the logs overseas, where they are made into furniture, cabinets, paneling and flooring.
A living forest does not contribute to growth, but when trees are cut down and sold as timber, we have growth.
Virgin timber is felled, cut down.
These prices were very similar to those reported by others [63] and were thus applied to the corresponding volume of timber of each wood type at the five tree inventory sites to calculate the mean revenue, under the assumption that all the commercial timber at each site were cut down and sold, following the rules and regulations set out by government for reforestation and timber concessions.
The trees had been cut down and sold off to be used as timber in other countries.
According to recent estimates, 32 million acres of forest worldwide are cut down for timber or go up in smoke every year.
Successful mining took time and capital, particularly once most of the timber around the Klondike had been cut down.
