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Land clearing destroys plants and local ecosystems and removes the food and habitat on which other native species rely. Clearing allows weeds and invasive animals to spread, affects greenhouse gas emissions and can lead to soil degradation, such as erosion and salinity, which in turn can affect water quality.
Grubbing or clearing is the removal of trees, shrubs, stumps and rubbish from a site. This is often at the site where a transportation or utility corridor, a road or power line, an edifice or a garden is to be constructed. Grubbing is performed following clearance of trees to their stumps, preceding construction. [1]
African tulip tree: Spathodea campanulata: tropical Africa: Fast growing, highly invasive, evergreen tree forming dense stands in gullies and streams, crowding out native vegetation: Class 3: SE Qld and gardens [1] Alligator Weed* Alternanthera philoxeroides: South America: Grows on land in damp soil, or in water as dense floating mats: Class 1 ...
Group selection is designed to mimic larger, multi-tree mortality events, which in some environments may represent natural disturbance regimes. The maximum size of a group (before it becomes a patch, or clearcut) is debatable. Some say it may be up to 2 acres (0.8 hectares) in size, whereas others limit it to a maximum of 0.5 acres (0.1 hectares).
Time-lapse of Tigercat mulcher clearing brush. Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses a single machine to cut, grind, and clear vegetation.. A forestry mulching machine, also referred to as a forestry mulcher, forest masticator, or brushcutter, uses a rotary drum equipped with steel chipper tools ("teeth") or blades to shred vegetation. [1]
In the most general sense, a glade or clearing is an open area within a forest. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Glades are often grassy meadows under the canopy of deciduous trees such as red alder or quaking aspen in western North America .
Eucalyptus argophloia is tree that typically grows to a height of 18 to 30 metres (59 to 98 ft) with bark that is white but dappled with grey and brown and shed in long ribbons. Leaves on young plant and on coppice regrowth are arranged in opposite pairs and linear to narrow lance-shaped, 45 to 90 millimetres (1.8 to 3.5 in) long and 1 to 14 ...
Lophostemon confertus (syn. Tristania conferta) is an evergreen tree native to Australia, though it is cultivated in the United States and elsewhere. Common names include brush box, Queensland box, Brisbane box, pink box, box scrub, and vinegartree. [3]