clear cut

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-005209",
  "term": "clear cut",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. 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.\n\n2. 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.\n\n3. A silvicultural system in which all merchantable trees are harvested within a specified area in one operation to create an even-aged stand.",
  "subject": "General environmental",
  "references": [
    "Environmental Issues Terms & Acronyms",
    "Terms of Environment",
    "Federal Land Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/clear-cut/"
}