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Rangeland

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open country used for grazing or hunting animals.

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Clear-Cutting

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cut down and remove every tree from (an area).

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Selective cutting

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Selective cutting is the cutting down of selected trees in a forest so that growth of other trees is not affected. This is done according to criteria regarding minimum tree size for harvesting, specifications of the number, spacing and size classes of residual trees per area, and allowable cut.

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Environmental Mitigation

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Used primarily by the United States government and the related environmental industry to describe projects or programs intended to offset known impacts to an existing historic or natural resource such as a stream, or wetland.

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NEPA Law

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basic policy is to assure that all branches of government give proper consideration to the environment prior to undertaking any major federal action that significantly affects the environment.

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Urban Sprawl

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is basically another word for urbanization. It refers to the migration of a population from populated towns and cities to low density residential development over more and more rural land. The end result is the spreading of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land.

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Urban Blight

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is the process whereby a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.