an area where the trees have been harvested or removed, like a crop
Compare? Harvesting all the trees in one area at one time, a practice that destroys vital habitat and biodiversity and encourages rainfall or snowmelt runoff, erosion, sedimentation of streams and lakes, and flooding.
A harvest in which all or most all of the trees are removed in one cutting. ( FEMAT, IX-5)
Harvesting all the trees in one area at one time, a practice that can encourage fast rainfall or snowmelt runoff, erosion, sedimentation of streams and lakes, and flooding, and destroys vital habitat.
A method of logging which removes all trees in an area, piling and burning the brush and trees too small to be of economic value. Very efficient. Very destructive.