In a report, the ISNA news agency pointed out the widespread concerns of environmental experts and activists about the plan to cut down trees on the banks of the streams under the pretext of preventing flood damage to bridges and roads, and wrote that according to experts, the roots and trunks of the trees play an essential role in stabilizing the flow of water, and especially in reducing the strength of the soil. valuable understory of Horkanin forests, and removal of live vegetation will have the opposite effect. Although the removal of dry and fallen trunks and trees in the water path is considered a technical matter, the introduction of such programs has intensified the risk of abuse and unregulated logging. In this context and following the increase in responses, the Deputy Director of Forestry Affairs at the Natural Resources Organization published a circular addressed to the district administrations, emphasizing the necessity of protecting the vegetation, a ban on any marking and cutting of forest trees within the borders of the stream.

In a report, the ISNA news agency pointed out the widespread concerns of environmental experts and activists about the plan to cut down trees on the banks of the streams under the pretext of preventing flood damage to bridges and roads, and wrote that according to experts, the roots and trunks of the trees play an essential role in stabilizing the flow of water, and especially in reducing the strength of the soil. valuable understory of Horkanin forests, and removal of live vegetation will have the opposite effect. Although the removal of dry and fallen trunks and trees in the water path is considered a technical matter, the introduction of such programs has intensified the risk of abuse and unregulated logging. In this context and following the increase in responses, the Deputy Director of Forestry Affairs at the Natural Resources Organization published a circular addressed to the district administrations, emphasizing the necessity of protecting the vegetation, a ban on any marking and cutting of forest trees within the borders of the stream.