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And several trunks, the bigger ones at least, had been cut down, except for one single tree. It was an almendro, a hard and resistant wood used in local markets for the manufacture of furniture.

A huge trunk of Almendro, a tropical hardwood, lay on the ground, freshly cut. Its outer bark was charred. But the wood inside was intact. “This forest was burned for the wood,” Zebers explained.