Clear Cutting

Rangelands

Dry open grasslands primarily used for grazing cattle

Forest

dominated by trees and other woody vegetation and sometimes used for commercial logging

Clear-cutting

A method of harvesting trees that involves removing all of almost all of the trees withi an area

Selective Cutting

the method of harvesting trees that involves the removal of single trees or a relatively small number of trees from the larger forest

Ecologically Sustainable forestry

An approach to remove trees from forests in ways that do not unduly affect the viability of another non commerical free species

THe Plantation

A large area typically planted with a single fast growing tree species

Endangered Species Act

A 1937 US law designed to protect plant and animals species that are threatened with extinction, and the habitats that support those species