Industrial landscape: Industrial Forestry: Patagonian Clearcut

This may be the World's most southerly clearcut. Originally deforested for cattle grazing, it is at the tip of Mainland Chile with the Straits of Megellan visible in the background. As clearcut logging pushes further north into areas that were previously intact, so to does industrial logging now threaten southern areas like Tierra del Fuego, which until recent times was free of industrial logging.
Patagonian Clearcut

This may be the World's most southerly clearcut. Originally deforested for cattle grazing, it is at the tip of Mainland Chile with the Straits of Megellan visible in the background. As clearcut logging pushes further north into areas that were previously intact, so to does industrial logging now threaten southern areas like Tierra del Fuego, which until recent times was free of industrial logging.