Felling example sentences

A plot of land is cleared by felling the trees and burning them.In the 1960s, when the forest department of the government was not quite successful in curbing the indiscriminate felling of trees in large numbers, people of the economically backward Uttarakhand region expressed their concern through the Chipko movement, which became stronger because of devastating floods in 1970.Undeterred, the women of the village reached the forest quickly and clasped the tree trunks thus preventing the workers from felling the trees.He was not happy that the forest adjoining their village is not regenerating and is on the verge of disappearing due to overgrazing of animals and indiscriminate felling of trees.