The Penns are clearcutting? Great! That means Cow Creek will flow clear and beautiful again!
The ones I’ve seen clearing cedar are doing the right thing, cut it 2 ft from the ground and wait for the root ball to dry up and die, then knock it over with a Bobcat as the roots don’t go down but sideways. After a good rain you can hardly tell the cedar was ever there.
What I heard from my neighbor was that they hired a Hydro mulcher to mow the trees. That thing is a huge shredder on a rice farming tractor that rolls up to a tree, they raise it up and drop the blades onto the tree. Nothing left but cedar mulch.