Clearcuts, I

• Clearcutting leaves a very poor habitat for future wildlife and plants; it reduces biodiversity by elminating the understory plants of a forest and killing whatever wildlife cannot flee, including the insects. The replanted forests are not the original tree types of old-growth forest or even of older second-growth forests and they don't have the same wildlife biodiversity. Clearcutting also eliminates the vital structural components of a healthy forest such as 'snags' and downed logs in the forest and streams, and a multi-layered canopies of trees.