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Monoculture
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Monoculture
Raising a crop of a single species, usually all the same age. A corn or bean field is a monoculture. So is a place where the original forest has been logged off and replanting has taken place. Usually, the most profitable and fastest- growing types of trees are planted, so what grows up doesn't have the diversity to be a forest, but is a tree farm.
 
 

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