When the government proposed that the forced felling of 30-year-old trees, which are decreasingly productive, be completed in 1989, the Lishan Farmers 'Rights Committee, led by Presbyterian minister Wang Chung-hsin, began a petition campaign to demand a postponement.
當政府要在民國七十八年內，強制執行砍除樹齡已屆卅年衰退期的果樹時，部分農民組成的「梨山農民權益促進委員會」，發動請願，要求暫緩此項行動。