The Forest Department discovered that a total of five deodar trees had been felled—four classified as fourth-class trees and one as a fifth-class tree. The estimated value of the illegally cut wood is ...

By 2:30 a.m. last Wednesday, "we noticed embers flying all the way down from way up in the [Angeles National] forest. They would strike the trees [the deodar cedars] and burst into little sparklers.

Acting on a tip-off a team of Forest Department seized 24 deodar sleepers during a raid in Dand village under the Saloh Beat of the Masroond Range in Chamba. Measurements of timber used in a ...