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forest reserve

American  

noun

  1. an area of forest set aside and preserved by the government as a wilderness, national park, or the like.


Etymology

Origin of forest reserve

An Americanism dating back to 1880–85

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For the study, Lucore examined a population of wild white-faced capuchins in the Taboga forest reserve of Costa Rica.

From Science Daily Nov. 29, 2024

Scientists observed a wild male orangutan repeatedly rubbing chewed-up leaves of a medicinal plant on a facial wound in a forest reserve in Indonesia.

From New York Times May 2, 2024

Aminuddin said the Wildlife Department immediately installed a trap for the big cat, which was believed to have come from a forest reserve nearby.

From Seattle Times Oct. 11, 2023

They live in a 289,000-acre forest reserve in the poverty stricken eastern Amazonian state of Maranhão.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2021

Gifford Pinchot was thousands of miles away; he never had seen Alaska, when he suggested that the Executive set aside the Chugach forest reserve.

From The Rim of the Desert by Ada Woodruff Anderson

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