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clearcutting
(redirected from Clearfelling)

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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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The claim that clearfelling will end in 80% of Tasmania's old growth forests--by leaving 'patches' of old trees--is a furphy.
The Greens have criticised our central highlands experiment because it involves traditional logging practices like clearfelling and burning.
A 1995 report by the World Wide Fund for Nature observes that "Indonesia is perhaps the only country where the planned expansion of the pulp and paper industry openly involves the clearfelling of substantial areas of rainforest.
 
 
 
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