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A forester cuts down a Fraser fir tree on the Duncombe Park ...
Nov 25th, 2011
(Reuters) - A forester cuts down a Fraser fir tree on the Duncombe Park Estate in Helmsley, northern England November 25, 2011. The estate has fifty thousand fir, spruce and pine trees growing on a forty acre site, with some three thousand of the five thousand trees per year cut being sold at Christmas to the public and commercial clients. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis (BRITAIN - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) -
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