Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

1. A native forest silvicultural system in which all (or nearly all) the trees in an area are harvested in one operation, such that more than half of the harvested area is greater than one tree height from a retained forest edge. Clearfelling is generally used in native forest types dominated by shade-intolerant tree species.

2. In the harvest of plantations, harvesting all the trees on a site.

See Harvesting, Silvicultural system.

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