So honey harvesting and notions of ownership of retrieved honey already exists among mbuti.
I don't believe the cutting of any tree much less fruit bearing trees will be necessary as wood is not the main burned substience. If anything the use of bark cloth that's closer to the trunk than crown can be used since its of lower quality to the crown.
There is with paracultivation an understanding of tending and improving stands of calorie rich foods.
I suggest reading the PDF Baka Pygmy managment of wild yams.
Also I wouldn't be so quick to attach a particular range of development until you know more about these cultures or else you're essentially be making say an Amazonian ATL with a pygmy veneer.
You'll also be dealing with high rates of a number of diseases that will hinder them and I suggest you restrict or taboo primate and bat meat to reduce chances of Ebola and similar outbreaks that would inevitably occur once any real population density is reached.
Good points. Yeah don't want to ape Amazonian development to much, it's just that terra preta is so damn fascinating.
And yeah, some really scary diseases lurking around if you have much higher populations than IOTL. Iron Age AIDS anyone?