(n.) An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
(n.) A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a forest; sylvan.
(v. t.) To cover with trees or wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) A golden toad (Bufo periglenes) in Monteverde Cloud forest reserve in Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.
(2) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(3) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(4) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(5) James Goodman, chairman of the Wyre Forest GPs' Association, said: "We didn't necessarily fully support the changes at the start of the process.
(6) The report warned that 24m acres of unprotected forest lands across the southeastern US are at risk, largely from European biomass operations.
(7) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
(8) Mice pretreated with Bru-Pel were protected against challenge with otherwise lethal doses of Semliki Forest virus.
(9) Israeli policemen search the area after a body of a Palestinian youth was found in a Jerusalem's forest area.
(10) No sick or dead monkeys were found in all the forests checked around Entebbe area during the epizootic.
(11) Countries would have to show, from historical data, satellite imagery and through direct measurement of trees, the extent, condition and the carbon content of their forests.
(12) It forecasts the pressure on forests will increase as world population grows by more than 2.5 billion people in the next 40 years.
(13) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(14) This paper reports selected results of a quantitative study of the affective behavior of the Efe, exchange-dependent hunter-gatherers of the Ituri forest in northeastern Zaire.
(15) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(16) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
(17) Tree deaths Higher rates of tree death and forest dieback have been increasingly attributed to climate change.
(18) Days and Nights in the Forest , which began as a comedy about Calcuttan gents on safari for aboriginal villagers, before shading into something almost too dark for my comprehension.
(19) The Semliki Forest virus spike subunit E2, a membrane-spanning protein, was transported to the plasma membrane in BHK cells after its carboxy terminus, including the intramembranous and cytoplasmic portions, was replaced by respective fragments of either the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein or the fowl plague virus hemagglutinin.
(20) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
Forestry
Definition:
(n.) The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Headache and vertigo were not linked with exposure to vibration in forestry and a significant part of the numbness reported may be due to the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(2) Indonesia has greatly under-reported how much primary rainforest it is cutting down, according to the government's former head of forestry data gathering.
(3) "Decisions are being rushed, communities are not consulted or compensated and the lure of money from cutting emissions is overiding everything," says Rosalind Reeve of forestry watchdog group Global Witness.
(4) The control group consisted of 136 forestry workers non-exposed to vibration.
(5) There's also a new edict from the central forestry ministry whereby communities will be able to bulldoze up to a fifth of the forest in their locality for agriculture or plantation use.
(6) They will still be an important part of British woodlands, but we will be favouring the broadleaved trees in many areas," said Peter Brett, operations manager for the Forestry Commission in Dorset.
(7) The present study aimed at evaluating the aerobic capacities of forestry workers and the physical demands of their occupation.
(8) Rice is the staple crop, and climate change risks the food security of thousands of villages,” says Chay Bounphanousay, deputy director of Laos’s National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute , where scientists and growers are working to develop new rice varieties that can withstand drought, floods and heat waves.
(9) The government argues there are more than 100 “degraded” areas from previous logging within the protected zone, meaning it should be opened up again to the forestry industry.
(10) The whole listing in 2013 by [former environment minister] Tony Burke and the Greens was an ideological one aimed to destroy the forestry industry.” Colbeck said the government “will look at the decision further from here” but added “I don’t think community values would accept logging in wilderness World Heritage areas.
(11) "We are going to have to completely change our attitude to forestry and the environment," he told MPs at a meeting of the environment and rural affairs committee.
(12) Elevated specific antibody levels increased significantly with the age of the forestry workers (p less than 0.0001) and the duration of occupational exposure to ticks (p = 0.0001).
(13) Companies should remove palm oil that is linked to destructive forestry practices from their supply chains by implementing ‘no-deforestation’ policies, or cancelling contracts if suppliers fail to act,” Turner said.
(14) Those set to benefit include senior members of the royal family and the Forestry Commission in Wales and Scotland.
(15) Three hundred and one men were grouped as cement factory workers, 649 were grouped as blue collar workers, 218 as white collar workers and 102 men had predominantly been occupied in farming, forestry and fishing.
(16) Peter Holmgren is director general of the Center for International Forestry Research .
(17) Thereafter, they have been used widely not only in forestry but also in agriculture, public engineering, etc.
(18) The panel has been asked to look at all areas of forestry in England, including increasing woodland cover, public access, protection of wildlife, the Forestry Commission and the public forest estate.
(19) Groups as diverse as the Socialist Workers party, the Greens, the forestry industry, horse riders and mountaineers have all rejected the idea outright, mostly fearing that the safeguards for access and wildlife would not be adequate.
(20) The government must set up an emergency summit bringing together representatives from all areas of forestry, plant health and conservation – because today it's ash, but tomorrow yet another of our precious native trees could be at risk."