This is a list of types of formally designated forests, as institutionalized around the world. It is organized in three sublists: by forest ownership, protection status, and designated use.
By ownership[edit]
- Church forests of Ethiopia - protected sacred forests around rural churches[1]
- Community forest
- County forest
- Crown land
- Municipal forest
- National forest
- National forest (Brazil) - a type of sustainable use protected area
- 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[2]
- Private forest
- Corporate forest
- Private nonindustrial forest land
- Private landowner assistance program - a class of U.S. government assistance program for maintaining, developing, improving and protecting wildlife
- Private reserve
- Provincial forest - administered or protected by an agency of a province; varies by jurisdiction
- 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
By protection status[edit]
- 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 Conservation of Nature and the World Commission on Protected Areas[3]
- 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 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
- Sacred grove - protected in Ghana, Nigeria and possibly elsewhere
- 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
By designated use[edit]
- Dehesa - lands utilizing a particular agrosylvopastoral system in Spain and Portugal
- Demonstration forest
- Experimental forest - formal designation used by the United States Forest Service[4]
- Intensive monitoring site - formal designation used by the United States Forest Service[4]
- Long-term ecological research site
- Model forest - formal designation used by the Food and Agriculture Organization[5] and the International Model Forest Network[6]
- 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[4]
- Teaching forest
See also[edit]
- Conservation easement
- Forest garden, or food forest
- Forestry law
- Forest reserve (disambiguation)
- Indigenous and Community Conserved Area, IUCN
- Indigenous Protected Area, Australia
- IUCN protected area categories
- Land classifications within the New York Forest Preserve
- National park
- Private protected area
- Protected area
- State park
- Urban forest
References[edit]
- ^ Robinson, Lori (April 24, 2015). "Ethiopia's Church Forests". Africa Geographic.
- ^ National Park Service, "New Jersey Pinelands: A Special Place" Archived 2012-04-27 at the Wayback Machine Accessed April 30, 2012.
- ^ IUCN, "Protected Areas - what are they? why have them?" Archived 2012-04-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c ""Experimental Forests & Ranges"". Archived from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
- ^ "FAO, "Model forests - the concept"". Archived from the original on 2012-04-30. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
- ^ International Model Forest Network, "About Model Forests" Archived 2013-12-14 at the Wayback Machine
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