FOXGLOVE FLOWER REGENERATION AFTER FORESTRY CLEARFELL OF PINE TREES IN SCOTLAND
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JOHN BRACEGIRDLE / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5184 x 2771 px | 43.9 x 23.5 cm | 17.3 x 9.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
9 July 2013Location:
SCOTLANDMore information:
Clearcutting, or clearfelling, is a controversial forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down. Clearcutting, along with shelterwood and seed tree harvests, is used by foresters to create certain types of forest ecosystems and to promote select species that require an abundance of sunlight or grow in large, even-age stands. Logging companies and forest-worker unions in some countries support the practice for scientific, safety, and economic reasons. Detractors see clearcutting as synonymous with deforestation, destroying natural habitats and contributing to climate change. Clearcutting is the most popular and economically profitable method of logging. However, clearcutting also imposes other externalities in the form of detrimental side effects such as loss of topsoil; the value of these costs is intensely debated by economic, environmental, and other interests. Aside from the purpose of harvesting wood, clearcutting is also used to create land for farming.The "insatiable human demand for wood and arable land" through clear cutting has led to the loss of over half of the world's rainforests.