Mr Garson said the commission carried out hundreds of forest operations and harvested about 700, 000 tonnes of timber every year, but this was the first pollution incident resulting from harvesting operations for more than 10 years.

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Many poor people who live in or near forests may actually welcome the opportunity to farm on deforested land and bureaucrats in distant capitals may think that unsustainable and low-revenue-yielding forest operations are politically preferable to what they perceive as expensive alternatives.

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He pointed out that the police had already stopped combing operations in the forest areas where the rebels are suspected to be hiding and withdrawn the policy of rewarding its people for killing the rebels.

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The academy's powered flight, glider and parachuting operations have been called off since Saturday so that the U.S. Forest Service could use runways for helicopters used to fight fires along Colorado's Front Range, Van Winkle said.

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