Large-scale logging of false cypresses continued right up to 1989. With forestry earning no profits, and in response to energetic lobbying by civic groups, the Executive Yuan finally banned the cutting of natural forests, at last giving a respite to the giant trees which protect Taiwan's land.
大規模檜木砍伐一直延續到民國七十八年，在林業已無利潤、民間團體大力奔走下，行政院終於頒佈禁伐天然林的命令，保衛台灣土地的巨樹總算可以稍事歇息。