Forest
A forest is an area with a high density of trees. Forests can be found in all regions capable of sustaining tree growth. Forests generally contain a large number of different trees growing to different heights, combined with an underbrush, which makes most use of sunlight. A forest in its natural form is home to many animal and plant species, and the weight of the biomass in any given square kilometre is high compared to other biomes.Several types of forests exist. Among them can be noted the taiga, rain forest, tropical dry forest[?], and temperate hardwood forest[?].
In ecological terms, a forest may be differentiated from a woodland. In this case, a forest is considered to have a closed canopy, where the branches and foliage of trees interlock, whereas a woodland is considered to have an open canopy, where sunlight penetrates between trees.
The science of studying and managing forests is called forestry.
See: List of forests, Forests in the United Kingdom
Mathematicians sometimes use the word "forest" to mean a mathematical set of tree structures.
Forest is also the name of a number of places in the United States of America:
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hour he struck the trail again, and coming to earth examined
footprints such as he alone in all the jungle had ever made,
that he was trailing a MAN--one of his own race?
There were two sets of imprints pointing in opposite directions.
trail. As he examined the newer spoor a tiny particle of
the bottom of its shallow depression--ah, the trail was very
swift noiselessness sped along high above the trail.
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him--so like him in form and yet so different in face
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the deep excitement of his discovery.
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thought and lodge in the bristling neck of the boar.
Scarcely had the shaft left his bow ere Kulonga had fitted
that he had no time to discharge it. With a bound the black
incredible swiftness planted a second arrow in Horta's back.
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