Sentence examples for heavy logging from inspiring English sources

The owl depends on old-growth trees with hollows for nesting sites, but heavy logging in the region during the 1970s and '80s reduced its nesting habitat.

But the original study said that heavy logging in earlier years had made forests ripe for fires by leaving behind more flammable brush and small trees.

Indeed, as a Congressionally mandated report released three weeks ago makes clear, heavy logging in years past has left the forests vulnerable to big fires by leaving behind dense stands of flammable small trees and underbrush.

Hainan, despite heavy logging, boasts two species unique to the island: a partridge, and a leaf warbler discovered only in 1992.Spotting birds in thick forest is a tantalising business and, for a reporter with dull senses, it tips towards the frustrating.

Much of the woodland of the Northeast was destroyed by heavy logging during that time, but many of New York's hardwood trees were spared because they were useless as lumber, on inaccessible peaks and hillsides or far from streams used to float lumber to towns.

If anything, heavy logging from earlier years may have contributed more to the conditions that have made Western forests ripe for big fires, because more flammable small trees and heavy brush are often left in the forest after the larger stands of timber have been taken out, said the report, by the Congressional Research Service, which analyzes policy for Congress.

A heavy log pushed her under at one point.

Nan Madol was built of huge, heavy logs carved out of basalt crystal.

The girls are tiny, but I've seen them carry heavy logs just like the men.

Shipping is available, but those heavy logs quickly add up to a hefty fee.

He could almost see the ground compressing under the heavy log weight.