Native forests definition

Native forests means lands which have sixty percent or greater native species forest cover.

Examples of Native forests in a sentence

• Native forests – represents native or long-term, non-degraded forests.

• Native forests generated less surface runoff than any other land use type (Table 4).

• Native forests produced the highest ratio of low flow to total flow compared to other land use types.

• Native forests are represented by black dots (observation), solid line (model prediction of the mean) and dotted lines (confidence envelope at 95%).Forestation is represented by gray dots (observation), solid line (model prediction of the mean) and dotted lines (confidence envelope at 95%).

• Native forests and vegetation provide important ecosystem services for maintaining life: they provide habitat for half of all known plant and animal species and livelihoods for millions of people in rural and traditional communities.

• Native forests contributed diverse types of leaf materials and woody debris to the hyporheic zone while pasturelands only contributed a few species of grass that decomposed rapidly and contributed little to aquatic production.

• The DMR indicated that the monthly loading average was 802 lb/d and the permit limit is 776 lb/d.

• Native forests, 123,864 ha; plantation forests, 5,043 ha; secondary forests, 36,142 ha; and non- native forests, 118,121 ha.

• Native forests can help reduce surface water runoff (at least for smaller-moderate rainfall events) and, at scale, generate precipitation (Lan et al., 2019; Acreman et al, 2021), while biodiversity protects and enriches soils and enables crop pollination (Malhi et al., 2013).

• Native forests, the less efficient resource for forestry industry competitiveness, are tagged for wood production with lost opportunities for the job they do best: carbon storage.