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What is a Forest
WHAT IS A FOREST?
Only trees? A community? An ecosystem?
Includes animals? Fish? Streams & lakes? Houses?
How big of an area?
Regeneration areas? Plantations? Christmas tree farm?
Ecological processes like nutrient or energy cycling?
“That portion of a geographically large area dominated by trees. As an ecosystem, it is meant to include all plants and sometimes the animals dependent upon the trees and plants. Smaller area of largely homogenous tree compositions are called stands”.