The light environment and growth traits of the pioneer tree species Litsea citriodora in a recently clear-cut plantation were investigated in order to reveal the establishment process and growth of this species under annual weeding after clear-cutting.
Cutting plantations rapidly and persistently benefited native species for at least 14 years, with minimal increase in non-native plants.
The experimental design consisted of nine operational-sized plantations, stratified into three blocks (1 control, 1 manual, and 1 cut-stump plantation per block), with five permanent strip-transects to sample vegetation within each plantation.
Fuentes worked for years in the cut rose plantations before becoming a union leader.
The overall objective is to harvest as early as possible, but to avoid clear cuts and plantations, and to maintain a permanent forest cover with natural regeneration.
Only one product is cut in eucalypt plantations.
We clear forests for agricultural plantations, cut down mangroves for coastal development, dam rivers and drain wetlands.
I had to go to the plantation and cut with the chain saw for about two hours.
And ever since I fell sick, my strength has been going down and I am very weak, and I don't have energy to go to the plantation and cut down matoke [a green plantain cultivated as a staple] for sale, or even plant some beans for sale".
Often, farmers are coerced into selling when they see their access to roads or water cut off by encroaching plantations.
For decades, Haitians, housed in remote shantytowns known as bateys, were brought over on contracts for sugar plantations to cut cane under the blistering sun.
