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From a timber market point of view: clear cutting is the final stage of a current management plan.
My opinion: I have walked through some of the roughest clear cuts you can imagine. If there is enough seed source around the cut to maintain natural reseeding I can understand that. However, I like to see the tract replanted within 2 years of harvest. I don't like to see people clearcut land and then just leave it alone. I see that as an opportunity to begin fresh with a manageable plan of action. Clearcutting is not the environmental catastrophe that environmentalists claim it to be. It does allow the timber slash to release nutrients back into the soil that will be used for the next generation of plant life. I will agree that clear cuts do "look" horrible. But I also see it as a fresh beginning for new forests.