APES Forests (Unit 5)
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Which of the following statements best describes the most unsustainable method of clear-cutting forests to harvest timber?
All of the trees in a forest are cut down and removed in one operation.
Industrial logging threatens many forested ecosystems. Which of the following environmental consequences will most likely result from clear-cutting deciduous forests for logging?
More carbon dioxide will be added to the atmosphere and increase anthropogenic climate change
(forest chart)
Row E
Sustainable use of forests in the United States would likely be encouraged by
cutting small groups of medium- and large- sized trees in uneven-aged forests
