clearcutting
- Subject Category
- K Forest Science and Forest Products
- Definition
- The cutting method that describes the silvicultural system in which the old crop is cleared over a considerable area at one time. Regeneration then occurs from (a) natural seeding from adjacent stands, (b) seed contained in the slash or logging debris, (c) advance growth, or (d) planting or direct seeding. An even-aged forest usually results.
- Definition Source
- Burns, Russell M. and Barbara H. Honkala, tech. coords. Silvics of North America, vol 2. Hardwoods; Glossary. Agriculture handbook no. 654. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1990
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/26783.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/26783
- Used For
- clear-cutting
- clear cutting
- clearcutting system
- Broader Term
- high forest systems
- Narrower Term
- patch cutting
- strip cutting
- Related Term
- even-aged management
- even-aged stands
- slash
- Spanish
- corta a hecho
- Term Number
- 26783