The Forest Department, in a major move against the illegal trade of timber, seized two salis of logs while they were being smuggled from Arunachal Pradesh through the waterway of the Brahmaputra at Balijan in Tinsukia today. A haul of three hundred logs was made during the operation, which was conducted jointly by forest officials and personnel from the forest ranges of Dibrugarh, Doomdooma and Dibru Saikhowa. The Dibrugarh team, which included forest officer KK Deka, brought one of the salis with 110 in number and deposited it at the DFO's office in Dibrugarh, while the other was deposited at Dibru Saikhowa.