I can't imagine that Michael Gove and Jarvis Cocker often share the same point of view, but both are opposed to Sheffield council's policy of felling up to 17,500 trees deemed "dangerous" and replacing them with saplings.
However, complex systems such as rainforests, wetlands, coastal estuaries and mangroves are very difficult to restore once they have been felled, dug up, polluted or filled in.
For typical mass furniture production, trees can be grown for 60 years before they are felled, cut up, reassembled and shipped to their final destination, he said.
Outside Central Park, Mallory Locke, a 24-year-old teacher in the Bronx, was out for a run, "dodging babies and people," and she looked wistfully past police barricades into Central Park, where crews were furiously cleaning up felled trees and clearing roads, while other workers were setting up the finish line for the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
Along the coast, the Thai army operated heavy machinery -- front-loaders, dump trucks and excavators -- piling up felled trees and boards, and moving crushed cars.
http://t.co/EL2UTdiR — Sarah Maslin Nir (@SarahMaslinNir) 30 Oct 12 Crews sawing up felled trees tangled in downed power lines on Cooper lane http://t.co/9qLdUFIQ — Sarah Maslin Nir (@SarahMaslinNir) 30 Oct 12 In Midtown Manhattan, a high-rise crane was dangling some 80 stories over the sidewalk at 157 West 57th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, as our colleagues report.
James Rodriguez kicks out after being felled and picks up a yellow card.
A 1982 graduate of the Marta Abreu University of Las Villas with an electrical engineering degree, Diaz-Canel essentially paid his dues, putting hard, careful work ahead of the overt ambition that has felled many an up-and-comer on the Cuban political landscape.
Here and there by the side of the road, felled trees are tied up in bundles, like captured prisoners.
Much common land was woodland, bought up and felled by speculators who sold timber to railway companies (for sleepers) or to mines (for roof support).
