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That's according to a Wisconsin appeals court that has overturned a northern Wisconsin man's convictions for timber theft and illegally harvesting trees.
Wisconsin law makes it illegal to harvest raw forest products.
Donald Gustafson of Iron River was fined $375 after a contractor he hired to grade some of his land also bulldozed a number of saplings on a neighbor's property.
The Department of Natural Resources said Gustafson failed to notify the state he was harvesting a raw forest product and ticketed him.
But the 3rd District Court of Appeals said last week that not every area with trees or bushes qualifies as a forest.
