What Are Some Alternatives to Clear Cutting?
Selective Cutting
Individual trees are marked and cut. This is also known as thinning.
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Strip Cutting
Narrow rows of forest are cut, leaving wooded corridors whose trees provide seeds
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Shelter Wood Cutting
Cutting the dead and less desirable trees first, and then later cutting mature trees.
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Seed Tree Cutting
Removes all but a few seed trees to promote regeneration of the forest
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These alternative methods allow lumber to still be used for economic purposes, but it helps reduce the mass amounts of trees being cut down in an area to preserve the environment.
Are There Any Other Methods To Preserve Forest's?
Plantation Forestry is when a stand of single species typically planted in straight rows. This allows lots of timber to be produced, and takes away the pressure from natural forests to provide the world timber.
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