Vast areas of rainforest are cut in one go (clear felling) and the most valuable trees are selected for timber, leaving the others for wood chipping. The roads that are created in order to cut and remove the timber often lead to further damage: see the effect of forest roads under Oil Companies.
adv. completely. 1  absolutely. 2  actually. 3  all. 4  all in all. 5  all told. 6  altogether. 7  considerably. 8  entirely. 9  fully. 10  in all respects. 11  in fact. 12  in reality. 13  in toto. 14  in truth. 15  just. 16  largely. 17  perfectly. 18  positively. 19  precisely. 20  purely. 21  really. 22  thoroughly. 23  totally. 24  truly. 25  utterly. 26  well. 27  wholly. 28  without reservation.
vast adj : unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; huge government spending; huge country estates; huge popular demand for higher education; a huge wave; the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains; immense numbers of birds; at vast (or immense) expense; the vast reaches of outer space; the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization- W.R.Inge [syn: huge, immense, Brobdingnagian]