11.   The takeover is accelerated wherever timber operations remove the canopy that shades red maple saplings.

12.   These range from the underwriting of timber operations in national forests by the U.S. Forest Service to special tax breaks for the petrochemicals industry.

13.   They sell hunting leases and run profitable cattle and timber operations.

14.   They say timber operations protect the sequoias by thinning out the undergrowth and smaller trees surrounding them and protecting them from fire and pest infestation.

15.   Timber operations have also sprayed herbicides to reduce brush that kills off browse.

16.   Weyerhaeuser planned to use the land as a timber export operation.

17.   KEB earns US dollars from its water privatization project in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, timber operations in Solomon Islands and export-based manufacturing.

18.   The rules also set requirements to leave certain large trees standing, and limit the amount of water than can be removed from streams during timber operations.