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  • Tree chopping lands forest owner in jail

    12/17/2004 11:32:18 AM PST · by Red Badger · 36 replies · 1,063+ views
    Aftenposten - Norway ^ | 12/14/2004 | Hans O.Torgersen
    The owner of a vast tract of virgin forest land in north-central Norway is in big trouble after chopping down trees on his own property. Newspaper Aftenposten reported Tuesday that the 54-year-old forest owner has been sentenced to six months in jail for chopping down the trees on his land in Flatanger, Nord-Trøndelag. The trees he chopped were in an area that was part of an officially designated nature preserve. An appeals court in Nord-Trøndelag ruled that the forest owner intentionally launched the logging operation, in the hopes that the area would thus lose its nature preserve status. Illegal logging...