Clear Cutting

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-005210",
  "term": "Clear Cutting",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A forest-management technique that involves harvesting all the trees in one area at one time.\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.",
  "references": [
    "NASA Sustainable Development Indicators Glossary",
    "Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/clear-cutting/"
}