FORESTRY
FOREST PROTECTION
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Question
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All the clearcutting facts below are true. Which are benefits or pros of clearcutting?
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Clearcutting generates more consistent and higher rates of return for the logging companies and its investors
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Consumer timber/lumber prices are kept low and predictable when clearcutting is used, since savings are passed on to consumers.
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Clearcutting destroys plant life and animal habitats.
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Clearcutting is aesthetically unappealing.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -: 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Clearcutting is one of the most publicly maligned and misunderstood forest regeneration treatments. It is the only way to grow trees that require full sunlight to reproduce, such as tulip poplar, black cherry, and aspen, and the fastest way to provide/create shrubland habitat.
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