Past assessments of the Brazilian rain forest have used satellite images to tally deforested areas, where farmers and ranchers have clear-cut and burned all the trees, but such work has not addressed either logging, which is the removal of only selected trees, as well as surface fires, burning down individual trees but do not denude the forest.

• Awhich is the removal of only selected trees, as well as surface fires, burning  
• Bwhich removes only selected trees, or surface fires that burn  
• Cwhich removes only selected trees, along with surface fires that burn  
• Dremoving only selected trees, or surface fires, burning  
• Eremoving only selected trees, as well as surface fires that burn