TREE UTILIZATION AND PRODUCTS
TIMBER HARVESTING
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Question
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Disadvantages of clear felling would be
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Leaves large areas of poor/bare land for many years until area is replanted.
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Doesn’t have any disadvantages
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Can leave areas land exposed to land slide.
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Heavy machinery is used to fell and transport the tree logs, which damage the local ecosystem.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Clearcutting disturbs soils, wetlands, and peatlands, releasing their vast carbon stores, and diminishes the boreal forest’s ability to sequester carbon from the atmosphere. As such, it is often an ecologically harmful form of logging.
Detailed explanation-2: -Logging removes large trees that normally fall into streams and provide shelter and thermal cover, raises water temperatures and pH, and degrades the chemical and ecological conditions and food webs that fish need to survive.
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