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List of types of formally designated forests

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List of types of formally designated forests

This is a list of types of formally designated forests as used in various places around the world, organized by ownership, protection status, or use.

Contents

Ownership

  • Community forest
  • Community forests in England
  • County forest
  • Crown land
  • Municipal forest
  • National forest
  • The National Forest (England) - a government-supported "environmental project in central England"
  • National forest (France) - a forest that is owned by the French state, originating with the Edict of Moulins of 1566
  • National forest (United States) - classification of Federal lands in the United States
  • National reserve - legal designation in the United States, beginning in 1978
  • Private forest
  • Private nonindustrial forest land
  • Private reserve
  • Private forest reserve
  • Private timber reserve (Tasmania)
  • Private nature reserve
  • Provincial forest - administered or protected by an agency of a province; varies by jurisdiction
  • Provincial forests (Manitoba)
  • Royal forest - an area of land with varying meanings; not necessarily densely wooded
  • State forest - administered or protected by an agency of a state; varies by jurisdiction
  • Tribal forest - owned, controlled, and/or utilized by a (formally recognized) indigenous or tribal group

    • Protection status

  • Ancient woodland - formal designation used in the United Kingdom
  • Ancient semi-natural woodland (ASNW) - composed of native tree species not obviously planted
  • Bannwald - a protected forest area in parts of Germany and Austria
  • Biosphere reserve - as designated by UNESCO
  • Biological reserve
  • Conservation reserve - used in the United States' Conservation Reserve Program
  • Forest circle - an administrative area including protected or resource-managed forests, used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
  • Forest division - a non-overlapping subdivision of a forest circle, used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
  • Forest park (The Gambia), as in Dobo Forest Park, Faba Forest Park, Finto Manereg Forest Park, etc.
  • Forest preserve, formal dedication for state-owned lands within the constitutionally designated Adirondack and Catskill Parks of the U.S. state of New York, required to be kept forever wild.
  • Forest protected area - formal designation of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the World Commission on Protected Areas
  • Forest range - a non-overlapping subdivision of a forest division, used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
  • Forest reserve or preserve
  • Recreational forest reserve, e.g. the Recreational Forest Reserve of Fontinhas, Azores
  • High-biodiversity wilderness area - an International Union for the Conservation of Nature classification
  • High conservation value area - developed by the Forest Stewardship Council as a means of defining regions with a specific environmental, socioeconomic, biodiversity or landscape value for use within forestry management certification systems
  • High conservation value forest - a FSC designation for forests meeting criteria specified in its "Principles and Criteria of Forest Stewardship"
  • Intact forest landscape - NGO-developed term used in forest monitoring
  • Old-growth forest - in Australia, formal protection category in the Regional Forest Agreement
  • Private natural heritage reserve - designation used in Brazil
  • Protected forest - used in Cambodia and India
  • Protected landscape - used in the Czech Republic
  • Reserve forest - used to designate protected forest areas in British India; used today in Bangladesh, India, Kazakhstan and Pakistan to refer to forests accorded a special degree of protection
  • Reserved forests and protected forests of India
  • Protected and reserved forests of Pakistan
  • Sacred grove - protected in Ghana, Nigeria and possibly elsewhere
  • Sacred groves of India
  • Schonwald, a type of formally protected forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in which economic usage of the forest is permitted under certain restrictions
  • Wild forest, formal designation within the New York Forest Preserve
  • Wilderness forest
  • Wildlife forest
  • Wildlife management area
  • Wildlife reserve
  • World Heritage Forest - formally recognized for special biophysical or cultural significance; administered by UNESCO

    • Use

  • Dehesa, lands utilizing a particular agrosylvopastoral system in Spain and Portugal
  • Demonstration forest
  • Experimental forest - formal designation used by the United States Forest Service
  • Intensive monitoring site - formal designation used by the United States Forest Service
  • Long-term ecological research site
  • Model forest - formal designation used by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Model Forest Network
  • Private nonindustrial forest land - small, family owned, and timber-producing forest lands
  • Production forest
  • Protection forest - forests that mitigate or prevent the impact of a natural hazard; designation in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland (Schutzwald) and elsewhere in Europe, particularly in mountainous areas (e.g. as a protection against avalanches)
  • Research forest
  • Research natural area - formal designation used by the United States Forest Service
  • Teaching forest

    • References

    List of types of formally designated forests Wikipedia
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