Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...specimen, a rust-colored giant 14 ft. in diameter and perhaps 1,000 years old, overlooks a massive mud slide in Stafford, Calif., that destroyed or damaged 10 houses last year. Homeowners are suing the Pacific Lumber Co., which was clear-cutting in the area...
...inhabitants of Dunster E-22 spent a good part of the month of November in the Dunster woodworking shop. It all began with a trip to Home Depot for lumber, after which the roommates sanded and stained the veneer in the shop but had to do the final assembly in their room. "It was like building a ship in a bottle," said Dan Horwitz...
...Auburn Street resident reported that between 9 a.m. on Oct. 13 and 9 a.m. on Oct. 15 an unknown person left a threatening note on lumber that he had bought to build a religious structure...
...real tragedy is that this crisis was avoidable. Far from being acts of God, the forest fires were set by Indonesian lumber and plantation companies who were trying to clear land. Indonesia's government could do little more than apologize to its neighbors. They might have to try a bit harder: the monsoon rains, which would douse the fires and cleanse the air, have been delayed by the El Nino climate system, and do not appear to be due for another month...
...estimated at more than 260 m.p.h. that stripped the hides off cows, upended 50,000-lb. garbage trucks, lifted the asphalt off the road and turned the Double Creek Estates subdivision, a community of about 75 homes and small businesses, into a dreary brown plain littered with rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm was "too large to outrun and too strong to have survived, unless you got away from the path." In its wake, half a mile wide and seven...