1.   The project would bring forestry exploitation back to life by helping to free up transport links and timber marketing operations.

2.   Many forestry officials charged with enforcing the law are poorly paid, and willing to accept bribes to allow timber operations to continue unhindered.

3.   But environmentalists complained that the plan would open whole new watersheds for timber operations.

4.   But in the past five years, Northwest timber executives worried that mounting public dismay would lead to an ever-tightening noose of regulation around their timber operations.

5.   Her timber operations have played themselves out and her taxes are substantial.

6.   His group has helped establish small timber operations that help thin the forests.

7.   It suggests ways to make the investment work, including farming, timber operations and hunting leases.

8.   One remedy under consideration is thinning the woods by so-called salvage timber operations.

9.   The Atlanta-based forest-products company will put its timber operations into a separate operating group and issue so-called letter stock for it.

10.   The plan would be used to draft guidelines on issues like controlled burning, which could replace the clearing by timber operations.