| The most common method of harvesting in forestry is clearcutting, in which entire stands of trees are cut down at the same time. |
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| The work takes planters to the most damaged lands, where clearcutting or wildfires have left moonscapes of the ecosystem. |
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| The practice of clearcutting, lack of replanting, and excessive tillage can all effect erosion. |
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| Maybe the forest industry could learn something about clearcutting right to the edge of the highway. |
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| Although clearcutting is still the predominant method of harvesting in Canada, the use of selection cutting is increasing. |
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| It is important to note that clearcutting is only one way to modify the snow catch efficiency of watersheds. |
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| What is the influence of clearcutting and partial harvesting on reproductive success? |
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| Technically, clearcutting means cutting every tree on the site and removing those tress considered to be merchantable to a mill. |
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| I don't know if you have had the privilege of seeing the documentary produced in Quebec and entitled L'erreur boréale about clearcutting. |
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| Doghair stands result from too many pine trees regenerating following fire or clearcutting which opens the forest canopy. |
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| Most silvicultural equipment is used after clearcutting. |
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| Management of these forests for wood production attempts to mimic the natural life cycle through some form of clearcutting that will allow sunlight to reach the ground and help sprout pioneer tree species. |
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| Does clearcutting originate in disrespect? |
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| Further mercury may be released if the Ontario government implements its current plan for more clearcutting. |
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| The European Union representatives came to meet with us in Ottawa before their trip to British Columbia in order to explain their concerns about clearcutting in the province. |
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| The reduction in clearcutting should be directed to types that have the potential to be managed for quality hardwoods, pines, red spruce or eastern cedar. |
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| This report provides the costs, productivity, and harvesting damage results of the partial harvesting and clearcutting treatments used in the fifth and final trial. |
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| The lack of explicit objectives for maintaining the character of the Acadian forest has led to, or allowed, a reliance on clearcutting in conditions where it is having this undesirable consequence. |
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| In the satellite image below, we use those bands of the electromagnetic spectrum which best show the forest types in this area, as well as the clearcutting that has taken place and the forest re-growth that is occurring. |
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| However, selective cutting methods are being promoted and investigated as alternatives where clearcutting may have negative impacts on wildlife habitat or water resources. |
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| The Committee recognizes that the results of the strategic analysis in Recommendation 10 will almost certainly reduce clearcutting, but such reductions would only be implemented in the 2012 plans. |
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| Students will become aware of the nature of satellite imagery and how it can be used to monitor environmental issues such as oil spills, forest fires, flood damage, mine wastes, forest clearcutting and land use. |
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| The Silvecultural practice known as even-aged management or clearcutting appaled Ned Fritz. |
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| Notwithstanding the ecological and economic considerations, many presenters felt that, for aesthetic reasons, clearcutting was inappropriate and should therefore be reduced. |
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| These studies primarily addressed the influence of clearcutting and partial cutting on reproductive success of birds, and their responses to harvest edges. |
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| The consistent size of timbers demonstrates that loggers were selectively harvesting trees over broad regions rather than clearcutting one area before moving on. |
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| Because clearcutting is necessary to regenerate aspen, a species beneficial to many types of wildlife, the brothers harvest patches from two to 15 acres in size. |
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| I remember the first time I ever saw a clearcutting operation. |
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| Bradley watched the clearcutting of giant 250-year-old hemlocks on one 55-acre site by a mill that had a lumberyard stacked high with unsold second-growth logs. |
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| Clearcutting provides an example of a lose-lose situation in which machines replace people and destroy an ecosystem. |
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