Wood rights allowed residents of a specific area to cut timber and collect firewood from a communal forest. The number of trees that could be cut depended on the number of shares a piece of land held. Often, the duty to replant trees was associated with this right, requiring at least three times the number of trees cut to be replanted in the same area, thus preventing forest depletion. Due to significant issues with sand encroachment, replanting rules were very strict and frequently monitored by a forest warden. Additionally, a fee had to be paid to the warden by the collective neighbourhood or district for their services.