"GOP lawmaker Dana Rohrabacher shocked and awed folks with his science smarts during a congressional hearing last month with this kicker: Clear cutting the world's forests would eliminate greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.
Clear cutting for agriculture in Brazilian Pantanal.
Clear cutting forests produces an impact on climate change.
This was before they started clear-cutting the trees and strip mining the mountain.
Clear-cutting the Catskills would also seem advisable.
The process involved first clear-cutting the forest and then creating a strip mine.
But for those more interested in the financial value of the biome, clear-cutting this magnificent ecosystem for farming, mining, and building infrastructure may seem like a more profitable endeavor than preservation.
But this modern vogue, this movement toward clear cutting, is a whole other slice of the "honey pie".
The thing is, a diameter-limit cut may be worse than clear cutting.
Introduce or review the term "clear cutting" and ask students what they know about this method of logging.
Consider the impact of clear cutting on Canada's Great Bear Rain Forest.
