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clearcutting
(redirected from Clear-cut logging)

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clearcutting: see forestry forestry, the management of forest lands for wood, water, wildlife, forage, and recreation. Because the major economic importance of the forest lies in wood and wood products, forestry has been chiefly concerned with timber management, especially reforestation,
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Written in a highly readable style, this book lists the specific policies (nuclear testing, clear-cut logging, uncontrolled sheep and cattle grazing) that have led to poisoned ground water supplies, soil erosion and the decomposition of natural forests.
The WOPR is a Bush administration throw-back that rekindles the controversy of the timber wars and returns to the unsustainable clear-cut logging that perpetuated the boom and bust economic cycles that crippled rural communities in Oregon.
Why it didn't include fish is beyond me, because the clear-cut logging has impacted fish barren waters everywhere, all over.
 
 
 
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