Sentence examples for forest felling from inspiring English sources

The changes in the last 230 240 years could be related both to the natural processes, such as windfalls, and to forest felling.

Red squirrel forest felling plan row.

You can't stop them, but there are still people who see "impact" as another example of business jargon ripping through the English language like a bulldozer through a forest, felling nouns which have been standing proud in their natural habitat for hundreds of years in order to build ugly new verbs - "to action", "to task", "to effect".

Does a forest felled 200 years ago that has grown back still qualify?

A former pine and hazel forest felled by stone age man, the Burren is a limestone desert riven by deep fissures and cracks in which tiny plants thrive.

"I came back to Uruará after a 12-year absence and I was horrified at the way logging and forest-felling had increased," she says.

Mystical and medicinal properties have been attributed to amber, which is the petrified resin of trees from primeval forests felled by natural disasters 40 million years ago.

Whole continents have been subjugated, forests felled, watercourses diverted, the earth gutted, seas fished to extinction; only human nature, remains triumphant, invincible.

Clearfell forestry in Tasmanian wet eucalypt forest involves felling of all timber followed by a high intensity regeneration burn to provide a receptive mineral seedbed for seedling growth.

Last year more than 25,000 sq kilometres (10,000 sq miles) of Amazon forest were felled, largely for soya farming.

Some conservationists are cautiously enthusiastic about the new trees, reckoning that it is better that they be cultivated than that the last stands of virgin forest be felled.