land clearing
Removing trees, brush
Land clearing is the removal of trees, vegetation, and obstacles from a tract of land, typically to prepare it for agriculture, construction, or development.
The term often carries environmental connotations, as large-scale clearing destroys habitat and contributes to deforestation: Land clearing in the Amazon continues despite international pressure.
Methods range from manual cutting to bulldozing to controlled burns.
- bulldozerBladed vehicle pushing earth
- excavatorMachine that digs earth
- heavy equipmentIndustrial construction machinery
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
- stumpsCut tree bases
stump removal · brush · chainsaw · timber · grading · topsoil · debris · burning · slash · controlled burn · uprooting · scrub · vegetation · earthmoving · development · construction · wildfire · erosion
- environmental issuesair pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, global warming, habitat loss
- human-environment interactionfarming, fishing, hunting, mining, logging
- deforestationclearcutting, illegal logging, selective logging, timber harvesting, timber harvest
- outdoor worklandscaping, roofing, construction, road work, paving
- ancient farmingancient farming, crops, fields, early farming, cultivation
- habitat destructionhabitat loss, habitat fragmentation, destruction, degradation, deforestation
land clearingreforestation
Replanting depleted woodlands
afforestation · tree planting · forest restoration · revegetation · rewilding
land clearingland conservation
Protecting terrain from exploitation
habitat preservation · wilderness protection · ecological restoration · habitat restoration · set-aside
land clearingecosystem restoration
Reviving degraded natural areas
ecological recovery · rewilding · conservation · land reclamation
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