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However, the word clearcutting has been pejoratively applied to all forms of cutblocks where the planned harvesting of timber management stands can be done in an ecologically sustainable manner. The issues surrounding forestry have been greatly skewed by the media who loves to portray the logging industry and loggers as evil destroyers of virginal forest. This is the same media that relies on wood pulp to produce its papers. The Sunday edition of the New York Times alone is responsible for the deforestation of millions of trees.
In some areas such as lodgepole pine forests the practice of clearcutting is actually preferred as it better simulates natural deforestation of forest fires .