Land clearing definition

Land clearing means the uprooting or clearing of vegetation in connection with construction for buildings; right-of-way maintenance; agricultural, residential, commercial, institutional, or industrial development; mining activities; or the initial clearing of vegetation to enhance property value; but does not include routine maintenance or property clean-up activities.
Land clearing means the uprooting or clearing of vegetation in connection with construction for
Land clearing or “clearing” means any activity which removes or substantially alters by topping or other methods the vegetative ground cover and/or trees.

Examples of Land clearing in a sentence

  • Land clearing and grubbing will remove vegetation and soil cover which may cause some soil erosion during monsoon.

  • Land clearing and grubbing activities will remove vegetation and soil cover which may cause some soil erosion during monsoon.

  • Construction, Demolition, and Land clearing (CDL) Waste: Includes all non-hazardous solid wastes resulting from construction, remodeling, alterations, repair, demolition and land clearing.

  • Land clearing activity will be suspended during rains to limit sediment loss.

  • Fargione J, Hill J, Tilman D, Polasky S, Hawthorne P (2008) Land clearing and the biofuel carbon debt.


More Definitions of Land clearing

Land clearing means the direct and indirect removal of trees and/or ground cover from any public or private undeveloped, partially developed, or developed lot, public lands or public right-of-way. This shall also include any destructive or inappropriate activity applied to a tree that will result in its death or effectively destroy the tree’s appearance and/or functionality, such as topping.
Land clearing means the removal of tree canopy, understory or herbaceous vegetation down to bare soil, by any method.
Land clearing means a large outdoor fire involving bulk natural wood or vegetative waste generated by the general clearing of land and piled by machine in order to change a land use.
Land clearing means removing structures, trees, shrubbery, or other natural vegetation from a plot of land.
Land clearing means the clearing of waste resulting from brush clearing, tree clearing or stump removal;
Land clearing or “clearing” means the destruction or removal of vegetation from a site by physical, mechanical, chemical or other means. This does not mean mowing, landscape maintenance or pruning consistent with accepted horticultural and arboricultural practices, which does not impair the health or survival of the trees and associated vegetation.
Land clearing means the exposure of soil by devegetation or the exposure of soil to the forces of erosion.