The reason for constructing the buildings from wood is probably that ideally proportioned straight and slender timber was available in large quantities in Scandinavia's vast pine forests.

用木材建造建筑的原因可能是，比例理想、笔直、纤细的木材在斯堪的纳维亚广阔的松林中大量存在。

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Tropical rain forests are diminishing at an alarming rate because of the human need for food and demands for timber, energy, minerals, and other resources.

由于人类的食物需要以及对木材、能源、矿物质和其他资源的需求，热带雨林数量正在以令人吃惊的速度减少。

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Forests are usually valued solely for their main commercial resource, timber, which is why they are so wantonly logged and cleared.

人们总是从商业资源的角度去衡量森林的价值，那就是原木，这也是为什么森林被肆意砍伐和清理的原因。

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Thornton is encouraged by the response to the law from timber exporters and forest-dependent communities who look to their local forests for fuel,food and livelihood.

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Here in Scotland large areas of forests are managed by the state for timber production, wildlife and amenity.

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However, as forests fulfill needs for food, fuel and timber, restoring them can benefit communities as well as the environment, the organization said.

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Land Girls took on all types of agricultural work while the Women's Timber Corps worked in the forests supplying wood for use in everything from railway sleepers to pit props.

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