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national forest

American  

noun

national forests plural
  1. forested land owned, maintained, and preserved by the U.S. government.


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Etymology

Origin of national forest

First recorded in 1880–85

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Eckdahl and his colleagues combined detailed national forest records with direct field measurements to reconstruct the amount of carbon released by each fire.

From Science Daily Mar. 4, 2026

The company has denied that its use of water is harming the environment and has argued that it should be allowed to continue using water from the national forest.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2025

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2025

Forest Service Christmas tree permit, Lyon and his wife, Amelia, trek to a national forest near their home in Missoula, Mont., to find a wild evergreen.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2024

If they could be protected, and the surplus presently killed according to some rational, working system, then every national forest in the United States should be stocked with elk!

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

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