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Lumber company fined $26,000 for cutting state timber

DES MOINES – Moravia Hardwoods LLC has been fined nearly $26,000 for cutting more than 100 trees in Iowa state forestland. According to the Attorney General's office, in late 2013 private landowners sold to Moravia Hardwoods the rights to harvest timber on their property, which abuts the Chariton Unit of Stephens State Forest. Moravia Hardwoods marked the trees it wanted, and then directed loggers to cut the trees. One of the loggers testified he cut only marked trees but discovered he was cutting on state land and informed Moravia.