Forest is in the air
Forest adjectives
What forest provides
Forest threats
Operations and transformation
100

A colourless, odourless reactive gas released by trees.

Oxygen/O²

100

Qualifies a forest maintained by man and in which usually at least one tree is planted for every cut one.

Managed

100

Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.

Food

100

A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant that may lead to death.

Disease

100

Forest operation consisting in cutting/choping down a tree.

Felling/harvesting

200

A colourless, odourless gas trees remove from the atmosphere and store in their wood.

Carbon dioxide/CO²

200

An adjective referring to the capacity for a forest or any other resource to replenish itself.

Renewable

200

Hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree.

Wood/timber/lumber

200

Natural or human-caused disaster that can be worsened by drought and wind and that can quickly devastate a forest.

(Wild)fire

200

Factory in which logs are sawn into planks or boards by machine.

Sawmill

300

What trees naturally cool down.

Temperatures/the air.

300

Qualifies a type of forest in the northern hemisphere, in cold temperate regions like Canada or Alaska.

Boreal

300

A place giving protection from danger, or a habitat for wildlife.

Shelter

300

Human activity consisting in raising animals or producing vegetables on a land surface.

Farming/agriculture/ranching

300

Selective removal of trees in order to reduce density and improve the growth rate or health of the remaining trees.

Thinning

400

Natural phenomenon thanks to which water goes back to the atmosphere from land, water surfaces and plants...

Evapo-transpiration.

400

Qualifies a primary/virgin forest consisting of mature or overmature trees.

Old-growth

400

A screen or a protection from direct light.

Shade

400

Logging practice consisting in cutting down and removing most or every tree from an area.

Clearcutting/clearfelling

400

Practice involving the selective removal of certain parts of a tree, generally branches, in order to improve its shape and/or its growth.

Pruning

500

A both natural and human-caused phenomenon that forests tend to limit.

Global warming/climate change.

500

Qualifies the vegetation of a forest when it is particularly dense.

Lush

500

One of the forest's missions focusing on its use for enjoyment/pleasure, like picnic grounds, camping sites, and trails.

Recreation

500

Dammage caused to trees (especially young ones) by animals like deer or rabbits.

Game browsing

500

Operation consisting in extracting a section of wood tissue from a living tree using a tool called increment borer. 

Coring

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