1.   Their axes sounded loud in the long wood as they cut the timber for their cooking fires.

2.   American lumber producers say that rights to cut timber in Canada are priced artificially low to support employment in British Columbia, Quebec and elsewhere.

3.   Environmentalists say far too much timber is being cut under the guise of thinning, a contention backed by recent research.

4.   Environmentalists have charged that letting private companies cut timber on public lands has cost taxpayers millions of dollars and amounts to a subsidy for the timber industry.

5.   He sees the places where his ancestors cut timber, farmed and lived in remote communities in high valleys.

6.   It directed the government to lift all environmental laws in a few areas so that some old growth timber could be cut.

7.   It may, for instance, cut timber without a watershed analysis where that is currently a prerequisite for harvest, he said.

8.   Loggers want roads to cut valuable timber, but some environmental groups say those roads disturb plants and wildlife and should be limited in public forests.

9.   Not only does cutting timber on national forests provide wood products, they said, it also keeps forests healthy.

10.   The Indians may cut the timber themselves or allow commercial loggers to do it.