1.   Ecological and forestry studies are conducted on sites throughout Scotland while local forest areas are used for detailed experimental work.

2.   But other scientists, together with indigenous leaders, stress the need to ensure that the local forest peoples benefit from their own knowledge.

3.   And the money is making its way to local forests.

4.   City leaders tout the fat bass in area lakes, the beauty of the local forests and the quaint bed-and-breakfasts.

5.   Eight wooden pillars, hewn from trees felled in local forests, were erected in pairs to signify the four gates of the stadium.

6.   Other workers are counting trees in the local forests, renovating schools and crunching up concrete from demolished buildings.

7.   Powerful and highly intelligent, elephants are used as work animals to haul teak logs from the local forests, a job that calls for both brain and brawn.

8.   Pop chooses the oak from local forests and fells it himself.

9.   The scientists suggest that the improved conditions led to the recovery of local forest vegetation.