All the timber had been cut down by the Rebels.
Virgin timber is felled, cut down.
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.
According to recent estimates, 32 million acres of forest worldwide are cut down for timber or go up in smoke every year.
A timber company hoping to cut down trees on an Indian's land, for example, would negotiate a lease with the department, which would collect the money and then pay the landowners.
Governments already auction off other valuable rights: to cut down timber, to drill for oil, to use radio spectrum.
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.
Nowadays, no bristlecones can be cut down for timber whatsoever.
In the past, many forests were either cut down for timber or left alone.
In this Chambe area, when Laurens came, the scent of cedars was everywhere; now most of the cedars had gone, cut down for timber, firewood and charcoal.
