FOREST ECOLOGY
FOREST MANAGEMENT
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Removal of all marketable trees from an area
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Land at least 10 percent stocked by forest trees.
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Large group of trees and shrub.
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Transports water and minerals upward in tree roots, trunks, and stems.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Clearcutting is an extreme logging method in which resilient natural forests are harvested and replaced with man-made tree plantations that do not replicate the ecosystem services of a healthy forest. Since 1997, over 1 million acres in California have been decimated by clearcutting and related logging practices.
Detailed explanation-2: -unambiguously clear; completely evident; definite: His sale of secrets was a clear-cut example of treachery. of or relating to a section of forest where all trees have been cut down for harvesting. a section of forest where all trees have been cut down for harvesting. verb (used with object), clear-cut, clear-cut·ting.
Detailed explanation-3: -: the removal of all the trees in an area of forest. Long considered a “trash tree” by the timber industry, the number of Pacific yews has been drastically reduced-perhaps halved-by clear-cutting, the logging practice that totally strips a targeted area.