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Forest harvesting residues

Forest harvesting residues, also called logging residues or slash, are the woody material left after timber harvesting: branches, tops, stumps, and unmerchantable trees, used for bioenergy.

Forest Hills, Queens

Forest Hills is a residential neighborhood in central Queens, New York City, known for the planned garden community of Forest Hills Gardens and its Austin Street shopping district.

Forest inventory

Forest inventory is a field sampling method that estimates tree species composition, size, growing-stock volume, and biomass across a forest area from measurements on a subset of trees.

Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) is the original 1906 Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California, transformed by Hubert Eaton from 1917 into the prototype American memorial park, with the Forest Lawn Museum, Hall of the Crucifixion-Resurrection, and burials of Walt Disney, Clark Gable, and Nat King Cole.

Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)

Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) is a 444-acre Forest Lawn cemetery at 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, Los Angeles, opened in 1952, known for its American history theme, Court of Liberty, and many entertainment-industry burials.

Forest Lodge, Windsor

Forest Lodge, Windsor: Grade II-listed Georgian house (built 1772–82, formerly Holly Grove) in Windsor Great Park; Crown-owned since 1829; 20-year lease to the Prince and Princess of Wales from July 2025.

Forest management

Forest management is the planning and implementation of practices to care for and use forests, balancing environmental, economic, social, and cultural objectives for both natural and planted forests.

Forest Massif of Odzala-Kokoua

Forest Massif of Odzala-Kokoua (Massif forestier d'Odzala-Kokoua), UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Republic of the Congo since 2023: 1,179,376 ha of Congo Basin rainforest with forest elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, and the Congo Basin's only forest-dwelling spotted hyenas.

Forest of a Thousand Daemons

Forest of a Thousand Daemons, originally Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀, is a fantasy novel by Nigeria's D. O. Fagunwa, the first written in Yoruba.

Forest of Dean

The Forest of Dean, also called the Royal Forest of Dean, is a historic royal forest and wooded plateau in west Gloucestershire, England, between the rivers Wye and Severn.

Forest Park (St. Louis)

Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri: a roughly 1,300-acre urban park opened June 24, 1876, larger than Central Park, site of the 1904 World's Fair, home to the Zoo, Art Museum, Muny, and the Glade/Steinberg renovation.

Forest pest

A forest pest is any living organism capable of damaging trees, plants, or forest products, spanning insects, fungi, viruses, weeds, mammals, and parasitic plants like mistletoe.

Forest plot

A forest plot, also known as a blobbogram, is a graphical display used in meta-analysis that shows each study's effect estimate and confidence interval alongside the pooled estimate.

Forest policy

Forest policy: goals, laws, institutions and instruments governing forest management and conservation. Includes FAO policy frameworks, governance pillars, OECD instrument effectiveness, and the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).

Forest product

Forest product: any material afforded by a forest for commercial use, covering wood products (roundwood, sawnwood, pulp, paper) and non-wood forest products (foods, medicines, fibres, resins), defined by FAO and GEMET and tracked in global trade statistics.

Forest range officer

A forest range officer, also called range forest officer, is the officer in charge of a forest range, the basic field unit of a forest division in India.

Forest Ray Moulton

Forest Ray Moulton (1872–1952) was an American theoretical astronomer and celestial mechanician who co-developed the planetesimal hypothesis of the solar system's origin with geologist Thomas Chamberlin.

Forest Research Institute (वन अनुसंधान संस्थान) (India)

Forest Research Institute (वन अनुसंधान संस्थान), Dehradun: India's premier forestry research institution, founded 1906 as Imperial Forest Research Institute, ICFRE institute and Deemed University since 1991.

Forest Research Institute Malaysia Forest Park Selangor

Forest Research Institute Malaysia Forest Park Selangor (FRIM FPS), at Kepong 16 km northwest of Kuala Lumpur, is a 589-ha man-made tropical rainforest planted from the 1920s on tin-mining land; inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape (criterion iv) on 11 July 2025, Malaysia's sixth site.

Forest resource

A forest resource is the stock of forest land and its goods and services, including timber, biodiversity, carbon storage, and water protection, treated as a measurable asset.

Forest Rohwer

Forest Rohwer is a viral ecologist and professor at San Diego State University who pioneered viromics, sequencing all viruses in a sample, and studies viruses on coral reefs.

Forest secrets, Dipriz Animal Park

Forest Secrets (Lyasnyya Tayamnitsy) is the safari-format petting-zoo zone of Dipriz Animal Park near Baranovichi, Belarus, opened February 12, 2022, with a 2 km route where emus, fallow deer and other animals roam freely among visitors.

Forest Stewardship Council

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an international organization, founded in 1993, that sets standards for responsible forest management and lets certified wood and paper carry an FSC label.

Forest swastika

Forest swastika: a 1938 plantation of about 100 larches forming a 60-by-60-meter swastika in a pine forest near Zernikow, Brandenburg, Germany; rediscovered in 1992, thinned in 1995, and removed by felling 25 trees in December 2000.

Forest understory ferns

Forest understory ferns are shade-adapted ferns forming a persistent ground layer beneath closed forest canopies, distinct from epiphytic ferns, and dense fern layers can suppress tree regeneration for decades.

Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker, born 1961 in Longview, Texas, is an American actor, director, and producer; fourth African-American Best Actor Oscar winner for The Last King of Scotland (2007), Cannes Best Actor for Bird, WPDI founder.

Forest Zoo

Forest Zoo (Belarusian: Лясны Заапарк) is a zoo of open-air enclosures in the Berezinsky Biosphere Reserve, Vitebsk Region, Belarus, opened in 2011 and featuring bison, elk, bears, wolves, and lynx.

Forestella (포레스텔라)

Forestella (포레스텔라) is a South Korean crossover vocal quartet, winner of JTBC's Phantom Singer 2 (November 2017), debuting 2018 with Evolution. Members Bae Doo-hoon, Kang Hyung-ho, Cho Min-gyu, Ko Woo-rim; known for the Bohemian Rhapsody cover and Immortal Songs King of Kings wins.

Forester (Chernobyl robot)

The Forester, also given as Foresteri, was a Finnish robotic manipulator reportedly used at Chernobyl for loading radiation-hazardous waste, losing functionality quickly in the high radiation fields.

Forestiera

Forestiera, known as swampprivet, is a genus of dioecious shrubs and small trees in the olive family, native from the southern United States to Ecuador.