Grubbing

File:Baustraße (Plau am See).JPG being applied]]Grubbing or clearing is the removal of trees, shrubs, stumps and rubbish from a site. This is often at the site where a transportation or utility corridor, a road or power line, an edifice or a garden is to be constructed. Grubbing is performed following clearance of trees to their stumps, preceding construction.{{cite book |title=Surveying: Principles and Applications |last=Kavanagh |first=Barr |edition=Seneca College | publisher=Prentice Hall |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-558-67562-2 |page=252}}

In animal behaviour grubbing is a feeding technique, referring to digging and uprooting of roots and rhizomes of plants. It is employed by geese, especially greater and lesser snow geese and Canada geese,{{cite report |author=Kenneth F. Abraham |author2=Robert L. Jefferies |date=1997 |title=Arctic Ecosystems in Peril: Report of the Arctic Goose Habitat Working Group. Part II High Goose Populations: causes, impacts and implications |url=https://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/pdf/management/arctic-goose/part2.pdf#17 |publisher=U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Canadian Wildlife Service |page=17 |access-date=14 November 2020}} as well as swine.{{cite journal |last1=Takacs |first1=L. |date=1982 |title=Grubbing by Swine as a Means on Preparing the Soil on Swampy Ground |url=https://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=DK19830926402 |journal=Tools and Tillage Kobenhavn |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=155–157 |access-date=14 November 2020}}