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  • adjective Not of or pertaining to forest.

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non- +‎ forest

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Examples

  • The authors conclude: “There is a real likelihood of Yellowstone’s forests being converted to nonforest vegetation during the mid-21st century because reduced fire intervals would likely preclude postfire tree regeneration.”

    David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011

  • The authors conclude: “There is a real likelihood of Yellowstone’s forests being converted to nonforest vegetation during the mid-21st century because reduced fire intervals would likely preclude postfire tree regeneration.”

    David Kroodsma: This Week in Climate Science: Yellowstone Wildfires, Sea Levels and Shorebirds, and Fracking Accounting David Kroodsma 2011

  • In 2007 the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests asked the company to stop its operations on the grounds that the mining was being done on forest land and not "nonforest land" as certified by the state administration.

    Lafarge In India 2010

  • So how did nonforest land suddenly become a forest when officers from the center checked?

    Lafarge In India 2010

  • So how did nonforest land suddenly become a forest when officers from the center checked?

    Lafarge In India 2010

  • In 2007 the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests asked the company to stop its operations on the grounds that the mining was being done on forest land and not "nonforest land" as certified by the state administration.

    Lafarge In India 2010

  • Here again, owners keep their land but agree to forgo nonforest development and to harvest trees sustainably.

    Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 6 2008

  • Illegal cutting of timber, firewood, and nonforest timber products is equally common.

    Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests 2007

  • The authors conclude: "There is a real likelihood of Yellowstone's forests being converted to nonforest vegetation during the mid-21st century because reduced fire intervals would likely preclude postfire tree regeneration."

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Kroodsma 2011

  • We do not consider nonforest sources of wood biomass (e.g., tree care and landscaping, mill residues, construction debris), which are potentially available in significant quantities but which have very different greenhouse gas implications.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

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