Even as the Assam Forest Department is busy evicting encroachers from 'reserved forests', timber smugglers appear to be having a field day in the expansive Upper Dehing Reserved Forest, under the Digboi forest division. Dozens of valuable 'hard wood' trees have been felled - illegally of course - in the past few days. The Supreme Court has banned tree felling in the Upper Assam districts, but this means nothing to the miscreants.