And with that, Brooklyn's largest remaining stretch of forest was a tiny bit cleaner.
It's influence now ranged across a 60,000 sq km stretch of forest, thousands of villages and millions of people.
And no more than they need.Illegally, some farmers are already staking out claims across the river in the sought-after stretch of forest.
It felt like holding the corpse not only of a bird but also of an entire stretch of forest that once covered the Gulf Coast.
But this summer, through his job with a student conservation group, he has discovered a park more to his liking: a stretch of forest along the Bronx River.
The usable timber would be ripped out of a stretch of forest and the rest would then be burned, because the land would often be worth more when cleared than it had been as untouched forest.
Part of the attraction was that the river ran for some 20 miles parallel to the shore, creating a stretch of forest and beach as little as 300 yards wide - land separated from all the world by water.
The Skytrail, an aerial gondola that opened a year ago at the Trees of Mystery tourist attraction in Klamath, makes a nine-minute trip through a one-third-mile stretch of forest canopy.
In the first scientific study of the monarch butterfly's most threatened habitat, researchers found evidence that a stretch of forest in the mountains of central Mexico, to which millions of the butterflies migrate from the United States each year, has been whittled down to remnants in a sea of development and deforestation.
It should, in other words, be possible for a stretch of forest to provide an endless supply of tropical hardwood but still suffer a minimal impact on its ecosystem.The power of the consumerSustainable forestry of this sort has been talked about in Brazil since at least the 1980s, but started taking off only in the mid-1990s.
