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Every modern timber company clear-cuts where possible. The practice confines the harvest to one area and makes reseeding easier; thus clear-cutting can cost a lumber company about 50% less than cutting only selected trees.
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www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945618,00.htm...
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945618,00.html
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Cutting timber in the Piedmont hills of North Carolina usually means clear-cutting. ting turns woods that stand “lovely, dark and deep” into an expanse of naked ground, deeply rutted by skidders, punctuated with bleeding stumps, and strewn with the limbs and laps that are impossible to walk among.
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www.perc.org/articles/article304.php
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Twigs and Branches - Clear-Cutting Timber Stands by James B. "Jim" Kea; Area Extension Agent, Forest Resources - now retired ... Clear-cutting is the best method of cutting in most North Carolina timber stands. Clear-cutting allows sunlight to reach the forest floor, which is essential for regeneration of our shade...
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www.ces.ncsu.edu/martin/twigs/clearcut.php
www.ces.ncsu.edu/martin/twigs/clearcut.php
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The culprit, he feels, is Pacific Lumber, the North Coast timber company that is logging old-growth Douglas firs in the Mattole's upper stretches. "Their clear-cutting has caused massive landslides, and that has filled up the river with silt and gravel," said Evenson.
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www.forests.org/archive/america/dibrprot.htm
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cutting. China's demand for timber after over exploiting its own ... Title: ENVIRONMENT-RUSSIA: China's Demand for Timber Fuels Clear- ... area of pristine Siberian forest to be clear-cut to satisfy China's...
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www.forests.org/archived_site/today/recent/2000/chdefue...
www.forests.org/archived_site/today/recent/2000/chdefuel.htm
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A huge area of Russian frontier forest is to be opened to clear- cutting. China's demand for timber after over exploiting its own resources is growing and seemingly insatiable.
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forests.org/archive/europe/chdefuel.htm
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"There's no doubt clear-cutting is an economical and efficient way of harvesting timber," said Matt Mathes, a Forest Service spokesman in California. "But the public does not like clear-cutting, period. We cannot manage public land in a way that makes a broad section of the public very unhappy."
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forests.org/archive/america/atimbtow.htm
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No outsiders were able to warn the timber markers of their mistake because the Forest Service had excluded the public from the sale area. It was only after it was reopened on August 1 that Barbara Ullian of the Siskiyou Project in Cave Junction, Oregon, discovered what had happened.
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www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200603/babyfoot.asp
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; The removal of the entire standing crop of trees. In practice, may refer to exploitation that leaves much not saleable material standing (e.g. a commercial clear-cutting). ... Myth: Timber is needed to build homes...
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www.snowwowl.com/rltreesclearcutting.html
www.snowwowl.com/rltreesclearcutting.html
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