Forest is in the air
A colourless, odourless reactive gas released by trees.
Oxygen/O²
Qualifies a forest maintained by man and in which usually at least one tree is planted for every cut one.
Managed
Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or that plants absorb in order to maintain life and growth.
Food
A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant that may lead to death.
Disease
Forest operation consisting in cutting/choping down a tree.
Felling/harvesting
A colourless, odourless gas trees remove from the atmosphere and store in their wood.
Carbon dioxide/CO²
An adjective referring to the capacity for a forest or any other resource to replenish itself.
Renewable
Hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree.
Wood/timber/lumber
Natural or human-caused disaster that can be worsened by drought and wind and that can quickly devastate a forest.
(Wild)fire
Factory in which logs are sawn into planks or boards by machine.
Sawmill
What trees naturally cool down.
Temperatures/the air.
Qualifies a type of forest in the northern hemisphere, in cold temperate regions like Canada or Alaska.
Boreal
A place giving protection from danger, or a habitat for wildlife.
Shelter
Human activity consisting in raising animals or producing vegetables on a land surface.
Farming/agriculture/ranching
Selective removal of trees in order to reduce density and improve the growth rate or health of the remaining trees.
Thinning
Natural phenomenon thanks to which water goes back to the atmosphere from land, water surfaces and plants...
Evapo-transpiration.
Qualifies a primary/virgin forest consisting of mature or overmature trees.
Old-growth
A screen or a protection from direct light.
Shade
Logging practice consisting in cutting down and removing most or every tree from an area.
Clearcutting/clearfelling
Practice involving the selective removal of certain parts of a tree, generally branches, in order to improve its shape and/or its growth.
Pruning
A both natural and human-caused phenomenon that forests tend to limit.
Global warming/climate change.
Qualifies the vegetation of a forest when it is particularly dense.
Lush
One of the forest's missions focusing on its use for enjoyment/pleasure, like picnic grounds, camping sites, and trails.
Recreation
Dammage caused to trees (especially young ones) by animals like deer or rabbits.
Game browsing
Operation consisting in extracting a section of wood tissue from a living tree using a tool called increment borer.
Coring