List of types of formally designated forests

This article lists types of formally designated forests in three subgroups: by ownership, protection status, and use.

Ownership

• Community forest
  • Community forests in England
• County forest
• Municipal forest
• National forest
  • National Forest (England) - a government-supported "environmental project in central England"
  • National forest (United States) - classification of Federal lands in the United States
• National reserve - legal designation in the United States, beginning in 1978
• Private nonindustrial forest land
• Private reserve
  • Private forest reserve
  • Private nature reserve
• 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

Protection status

• Ancient woodland - formal designation used in the United Kingdom
  • Ancient semi-natural woodland (ASNW) - composed of native tree species not obviously planted
• 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 protected area - formal designation of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the World Commission on Protected Areas
• Forest range - a non-overlapping subdivision of a forest division, used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
• Forest reserve or preserve
• High-biodiversity wilderness area - an International Union for the 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 reserve of natural heritage - designation used in Brazil
• Protected forest - used in Cambodia and India
• Protection forest - used in France, Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe, particularly in mountainous areas (e.g. as a protection against avalanches)
• 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
  • Reserved forests and protected forests of India
  • Protected and reserved forests of Pakistan
• Sacred grove - protected in Ghana, Nigeria and possibly elsewhere
• Wilderness forest
• Wildlife forest
• Wildlife reserve
• World Heritage Forest - formally recognized for special biophysical or cultural significance; administered by UNESCO

Use

• Demonstration forest
• Experimental forest - formal designation used by the United States Forest Service
• Intensive monitoring site - formal designation used by the United States Forest Service
• Long-term ecological research site
• Model forest - formal designation used by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Model Forest Network
• Private nonindustrial forest land
• Production forest
• Research forest
• Research natural area - formal designation used by the United States Forest Service
• Teaching forest

See also

• Conservation easement
• Forest garden, or food forest
• Forest law
• 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

External links

• UNESCO World Heritage Forest Programme