These help local people produce the timber they need, without further damage to the natural forests and wildlife.

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As the light fades, lorries without number plates arrive at the timber yards loaded with what locals say is illegally felled tropical timber.

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If salmon are listed, Mr Locke said, hardly a housing development, timber sale or road project in the state could proceed without considering its impact on fish.

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Gleason owns names like Plum Creek Timber and Rayonier, a way to play the recovery in housing, he says, without needing to look at the overbought home-builders.

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