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Clearcutting, or clearfelling, is a harvest method that removes essentially all the standing trees in a selected area. Depending on management objectives, a clearcut may or may not have reserve trees left to attain goals other than regeneration, including wildlife habitat management, mitigation of potential erosion or water quality concerns. Silviculture objectives for clearcutting, (for example, healthy regeneration of new trees on the site) and a focus on forestry distinguish it from deforestation. Other methods include Shelterwood cutting, group selective, single selective, seed-tree cutting, patch cut and retention cutting.
Logging methods
The above operations can be carried out by different methods, of which the following three are considered industrial methods: