"We had people calling us saying, 'They aren't going to clearcut the valley are they?' "

They clearcut, and the woods came back.

Tonight, with his team in desperate need, he clearcut the Indiana Pacers' frontline.

The taxpayer dollars spent on building access roads, surveying and other overhead is greater than the receipts from the timber companies that clearcut the trees.

"Many innocent landowners are taken advantage of by loggers who clearcut unneccessarily, and owners make poor decisions based on a forester's recommendation.

A blanket permit was prepared that would have allowed any landowner who claimed to have suffered damage to at least one of three trees to clearcut an affected tract.

He created this reserve because the Anaconda Copper Mining Company, based in Butte, Montana, had begun to clearcut the upper Big Hole River watershed.

A new dispute centers around a Federal Aviation Administration plan to clearcut more than 40 acres of trees to provide a clearer flight path - a plan the town only heard of by accident, Mr. Homan said.

Around that time, the sawmill owners clearcut the entire Grandview-Woodland area, and the construction of the Interurban train line to New Westminster, British Columbia in 1891 spurred the construction of a new community in the area.

In 1993, the MacMillan Bloedel company composed an agenda of expanding its logging into new areas and refused to abandon its plans to clearcut a significant portion of the temperate rain forest around Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in spite of opposition from several organizations.

The USFS recreation officers would probably hound him to use the prepared campsites for his own safety (he might get himself clearcut up on the mountains), and providing he could even find a few buffalo chips to ignite, he would have to run the risk of getting doused with a bomber load of fire retardant.