"clear cut area" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an area of land or a situation that is easily distinguishable and unambiguous. For example, "The clear cut area between right and wrong was evident when he chose not to take advantage of the situation."
Although, ideally, root systems are left behind to hold the soil in place, there is bound to be erosion in any clear cut area.
Their study was performed between 8th of May and the 26th of June , 1996 in a natural population inhabiting a clear cut area (previous pine forest) that had been intentionally burnt for conservation purposes 3 years earlier, and the environment corresponded to the 50% burnt visual background treatment used in our present detection experiment.
The main reason is the nature of the logging - there are very few clear cut areas.
Furthermore, Google Earth images from June 2014 and our carbon map (Fig. 4, middle panels) show areas of low carbon corresponding to patches of clear cut areas, perhaps cleared for agriculture or wood extraction and roads.
A total of 2716 1-ha LiDAR-based AFCS plots were created, avoiding an excess of path boundaries, field measurement plots, agricultural fields, clear cut areas, water areas, and built structures including buildings and roads.
Another complicating factor is that according to current national forest management plans, more than 30% of the total clear-cut area in Japan should no longer be maintained as planted forests (Forestry Agency 2014) but regenerated as natural stands, such as mixed hardwood forests.
Environmental groups undertook a programme of re-greening the border, planting new trees and sowing grass seeds to fill in the clear-cut area along the line.
A pair of funnel trap groups, each consisting of a combination of a 12-unit multiple funnel trap (Pherotech (now Contech) Inc., Delta, British Columbia, Canada) and an adjacent a cross barrier trap (Fytofarm Ltd., Bratislava, Slovakia), was set up 10 m apart in a new clear-cut area of mixed spruce and pine forest.
Finally, the conversion of the annual clear-cut area into changes in forest C stocks is crudely obtained by using fixed emission factors.
The explanatory variables "national protectorate area," "plantation area," and "clear-cut area" show significantly negative parameter estimates, as shown in Figures 8, 10, and 11, respectively.
