"selective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- So that only selective cutting is done, to thin the groves, no commercial strip-cutting.
- Clearcutting contrasts with selective cutting, such as high grading, in which only commercially valuable trees are harvested, leaving all others.
- Much of the selective cutting is "high-grading" - clearing all the big trees and leaving the small ones standing.
- After fifty years of forestry, the fine hardwood trees were almost ready for sustained selective cutting.
- And selective cutting allows loggers to work on the same plot of land repeatedly during their productive years.
- Lumber companies, together with settlers working for the industry, will preserve their source of supply through selective cutting, thus earning the most money per acre.
- But mahogany seedlings need light to grow, and selective cutting leaves only small holes in the canopy.
- "But he did it by selective cutting."
- Harvesting methods may include clearcutting or selective cutting.
- But there has, alas, been selective cutting and quarrying in what was once pristine.
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