Throughout the subsequent decade, the Métis received government funds to construct schools, roads, housing, engage in commercial fishing, and extracting timber.

Africans and non-Africans alike have extracted diamonds, gold, copper, timber, elephant tusks and other resources in a lawless commercial culture.

The military-dominated governments contracted huge debt with the multilateral development agencies, then extracted timber to pay for it.

But it would still be feasible in some forests to extract timber using helicopters or off-road logging equipment.

For the last 150 years, the people of the valley have been forest contractors in extracting timber from the forest.

Seen from the south, the Amazon seems a cornucopia of easily extracted oil, minerals, timber, medicinal plants and other riches.

He began his career in the 1980s and started Htoo Group in the early 1990s to extract timber from Burma's forests.

He believed that sensible policies for extracting timber would allow a balance to be maintained, permitting humankind to harvest a permanently renewable resource.

In the forested uplands of Indonesia, in order to extract timber, large forestry corporations constructed road systems to allow access to previously inaccessible areas.

It extended the season in which the logging industry could extract timber from the North Woods of Michigan, by removing the need for icy ground to travel over.