They believed cutting down trees was a crime. Trees were to be grown and sustained,” says Dil Bahadur Khatri, a forestry and ecosystem services specialist at ForestAction Nepal, a research-focused civil society organisation. That is the reason why plantations up north have not been harvested to their full potential, he observes in his spacious Kathmandu office. But, has the government also set any barriers on logging? “ In cutting frees, there is no governmental barrier, because the government has given the resource to communities to manage and use,” he says with confidence, revealing either a true or trained obliviousness. “ Have you ever seen the government intervene in felling trees in community forests?