The roads also change subsurface water movement due to the redistribution of soil and rock.

Clear cutting may slow or stop the advance of such problems by providing a barrier, making it more difficult for the insects and diseases to spread.

In this instance, the goal is to maintain the health of the woods. Fire suppression. Every year, thousands of acres of forest burns down. Jul 03, Loggers also prepare land for the farmers to grow crops in the land as well as to keep their animals. Loggers also cut trees as they want to make money out of it. Cutting trees is very bad to the environment as the survival of animals and humans depends on the trees.

Cutting the trees would reduce the population as the people need oxygen to live.5/5(1). For most small tree cutting (logging) outfits, they are cutting trees on other people’s property and cannot just plant trees wherever they want. As for the big operations that own thousands of acres, they do continually plant new trees for harvesting, because they don’t want to run out of timber. Mar 30, In a typical clear-cut, the land is cleared of every tree, the logs gathered into neat piles, the brush burned and the ground replanted.

On this cut, the loggers start at the bottom of the slope Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Why do people keep cutting down trees and wiping out forests? In the US, clear cutting of federal and state land is prohibited.

We use sustainable forestry practices that are Forestry doesn't ruin forests. We often mistakenly think that all forests should be old growth.

That's not true. To help the logger easily see trees to be cut, most foresters will mark opposite sides of the tree; some will even paint a ring completely around the tree. Loggers can avoid trees to be retained if they can easily identify the trees to be harvested from any direction.

After selecting the trees to be cut, the forester will estimate the volume to be harvested, which is commonly called the"merchantable volume.".

Jul 30, My plan was to clear off about 30 acres to build a house and raise a few animals and leave the rest for hunting and recreation. The stumps left in the wooded part would not bother me but I don't know what to do with stumps left in the part I want to clear. I have been told that a dozer will not budge a stump that has been cut off low to the ground. Oct 19, The loggers used axes, saws, and other early methods of bringing the trees down.

Rapidly improving technology in the 20th century allowed more trees to be harvested in less time. Transportation also caught up to the task of moving the massive logs. Railways started replacing horses and.