{"id":40311,"date":"2024-01-23T11:27:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foretnature.be\/?post_type=forestnews&#038;p=40311"},"modified":"2024-01-23T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:30:05","slug":"impact-of-clear-cutting-review-the-facts-to-feed-the-debate","status":"publish","type":"forestnews","link":"https:\/\/foretnature.be\/en\/forestnews\/impact-of-clear-cutting-review-the-facts-to-feed-the-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of clear-cutting: review the facts to feed the debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>If there&rsquo;s one hotly debated topic in French forests, it&rsquo;s clear-cutting. This is the reason why the present scientific report has been commissioned. It addresses not only the issue of clear-cutting, but also that of forest renewal in the context of climate change, whether or not it is associated with clear-cutting. Natural regeneration is also considered.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The conclusions point to the effects of clear-cutting:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>on the physical and chemical environment: modification of the soil microclimate, risk of windthrow, erosion and rising water tables, potential loss of chemical fertility of the soil and loss of soil carbon;<\/li>\n<li>on biodiversity, making a distinction between :<\/li>\n<li>the impact of clear-cutting itself (on a landscape scale and on a more local scale on edges, riparian woodland, soil biodiversity, influence on wild ungulates, replacement habitats)<\/li>\n<li>the impact of sylvicultural works implemented after a clear-cut (soil preparation, planting versus regeneration).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The human, social and economic dimensions of clear-cutting are also addressed. Finally, the document lists the prospects for research into clear-cutting and forest renewal in the context of climate change.<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":40284,"template":"","class_list":["post-40311","forestnews","type-forestnews","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foretnature.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forestnews\/40311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foretnature.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forestnews"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foretnature.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/forestnews"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foretnature.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foretnature.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}