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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Fields of Study > forestry > silviculture > silvicultural systems > high forest systems > clearcutting > patch cutting
Forestry, Wildland Management > forestry > silviculture > silvicultural systems > high forest systems > clearcutting > patch cutting
Preferred Term:

patch cutting

Definition:
A clearcutting system variation in which the logging operation removes all merchantable timber in patches of about 40 to 200 acres, separated for as long as practicable (preferably until the regeneration is adequately shading the forest floor) by living forest, so as to both secure the optimum dispersal of seed and to avoid the high hazard of large continuous areas of logging debris.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
clearcutting
Related Concepts:
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/306997
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RDF/XMLCreated 2017-08-18, last modified 2017-11-10