Forest definition

Forest means an area of land defined by the minimum values for area size, tree crown cover or an equivalent stocking level, and potential tree height at maturity at the place of growth of the trees as specified for each Member State in Annex II. It includes areas with trees, including groups of growing, young, natural trees, or plantations that have yet to reach the minimum values for tree crown cover or an equivalent stocking level or minimum tree height as specified in Annex II, including any area that normally forms part of the forest area but on which there are temporarily no trees as a result of human intervention, such as harvesting, or as a result of natural causes, but which area can be expected to revert to forest;
Forest means stands of native or introduced trees containing at least two hundred trees per acre and located on privately owned land. However, a stand of fruit trees is not a forest.
Forest. ’ means an ecosystem of at least one acre in size, including timberland and woodland, which—

Examples of Forest in a sentence

  • Such construction shall be located where approved in writing by Forest Service and shall be constructed and used in a manner that will protect National Forest values.

  • Forest Service shall locate and post the boundaries of all such areas, as needed.

  • Forest Service shall explain the bill at the time it requests each deposit.

  • Such hauling shall be confined to periods when abnormal soil erosion and damage to National Forest lands will not result.

  • Forest Service shall revise the Schedule of Items to show the estimated cost for the portion constructed to the revised terminus as a separate segment.


More Definitions of Forest

Forest means land spanning more than 0,5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10%, or trees able to reach those thresholds in situ, excluding agricultural plantations and land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use;
Forest means a concentration of trees and related vegetation managed primarily for the production of forest agricultural commodities such as timber, fiber or other wood products, including other similar areas managed for recreation or resource conservation.
Forest means land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use.
Forest means a biological community dominated by trees and other woody plants covering a land area of 10,000 square feet or greater.
Forest or “forest” means an area of land carrying a Forest Community, or a plantation of one or more tree species established for timber production;
Forest has the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.
Forest is defined in Section B of the Recitals.