logging
law ging
- n the work of cutting down trees for timber
- v enter into a log, as on ships and planes
- v cut lumber, as in woods and forests
- Trusting the logging companies to deliver on their promises isn't wise, cautions Cambodia's official logging-industry monitor, Global Witness, a London advocacy group.
- Countless stories detail rapid deforestation, perennial fires and illegal logging.
- A federal-court lawsuit on the Owl Creek logging, due for trial in July, may determine how seriously logging firms must take endangered-species regulations.