Reason: Enviros have blocked permits in prime watersheds where clear-cutting would cause flooding and erosion.
If only there were an answer to Hollywood's cultural clear-cutting as simple as planting a seed.
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But what sparked a backlash was Maxxam's clear-cutting of old-growth sequoias like those in the 7, 000-acre Headwaters forest.
Think of multinational corporations clear-cutting tropical forests, home-grown movies being squeezed out by Hollywood blockbusters, and the Asian Financial Crisis.
Many tributaries running through the forest had dried up due to wide-spread clear-cutting and they said fertilizers were polluting the water.
The oil money is going to come in handy in the Conservancy's efforts to protect land from clear-cutting, strip malls and other heavy development.
Over the past decade, Brazil has cracked down on clear-cutting, especially in the biodiverse Amazon rain forest, reducing the rate of deforestation by 80%.
The problem is that while clear-cutting sections of rain forest and burning out all the underbrush makes great soil for pastureland, it only does so for about three years.
With one tree able to produce as much as 400 pounds of food a year, using the Maya nut prevents rain forest clear-cutting to harvest other foods and increases populations' food supplies.
But as studies detail plans for thousands of miles of new pipelines and related infrastructure, the dangers to biologically rich forests that have rebounded since vast clear-cutting in the 1800s are taking on new urgency.
Dark rumours are circulating that the Malaysians and Ethiopians will try to block any agreement favourable to America in retaliation for that country's criticism of their policies on such things as the clear-cutting of forests.
While sustainable forestry techniques -- such as selectively culling trees rather than clear-cutting whole areas of forests -- could reduce deforestation of rainforests by millions of acres per year, according to National Geographic, travellers can also play their part.
The very, very early review makes clear that cost-cutting is the rule of the day: a 2010-era Snapdragon chip, 512MB of RAM and a fairly low-grade 4-inch LCD don't afford much in the way of bragging rights.
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Davis saw clear cutting in Alabama and man-made forests with only one type of tree.
Earlier forest blockades, by Greenpeace and others, showed up the logging companies' destructive practices, such as over-cutting, too-large clear-cuts, and damage not only to the forests but to salmon streams.
The Premiership outfit continued to have the lion's share of the possession, but lost their cutting edge and had trouble creating clear-cut chances.
Hamilton may have lacked a cutting edge in midweek, but they created the first clear-cut chance within eight minutes.
What is particularly important to him is that the music industry has made it clear to him that it values HMV - as an alternative to price-cutting online retailers and supermarkets that offer very limited choice.
However, a lack of a real killer pass or shot in the final third often had lone striker Rooney cutting a forlorn figure and it was Chelsea who forged the more clear-cut chances, particularly through Anelka.
In these cost-cutting times, when economic difficulties jeopardiseinvestment in development, let us be clear that developmental progress more than pays for itself.
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"While the budget resolution takes important steps in the near-term of cutting the deficit in half by 2012 and by two-thirds by 2014, it is clear that more will be needed to address the long-term fiscal imbalance confronting the nation beyond the five-year budget window, " said Conrad.
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