commercial logging
Industrial tree felling
Commercial logging is the harvesting of trees for profit, typically by companies that sell timber for lumber, paper, or other wood products.
The term often appears in environmental discussions contrasting industrial forestry with sustainable practices: Commercial logging has devastated old-growth forests.
It implies large-scale operations rather than individual landowners cutting trees on their own property.
- timber tradeCommerce in cut wood
- chainsawsMotor-driven cutting tools
- logSectioned tree trunk
- fellerOne who cuts timber
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
eco-certification · chain of custody · lumber industry · pulp and paper · soil erosion · haul · skidders · clear cutting · timber harvest · tree felling · mill · biodiversity loss · export markets · board feet · axe · carbon footprint · woodlot · treeline
- deforestationclear cutting, clearcutting, clear-cutting, timber harvesting, timber harvest
commercial loggingforest conservation
Protecting wooded ecosystems systematically
forest preservation · wilderness protection · forest protection · nature conservation · habitat protection
commercial loggingreforestation
Replanting depleted woodlands
afforestation · forest restoration · tree planting · rewilding · ecosystem restoration
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