Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The care and cultivation of forest trees; forestry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sylviculture .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
sylviculture .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The care and development of
forests in order to obtain aproduct or provide abenefit ;forestry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All the fancy iPhones in the world (a cool innovation) are meaningless when your home floats away down a river that experienced 200-year flood-events twice in the last year, like in parts of Wisconsin where we have a property where we practice silviculture, or sustainable forestry, in partnership with the Kickapoo Woods Cooperative.
ECOnomics: A Return to Place, Permanance, and Nature — not More, Bigger, Faster 2008
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Unlike silviculture groups and pulp-and-paper industries that plant only one kind of species in a large area, a practice known as monoculture, Maathai was specific about the need for correct trees being planted in the correct places.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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The approach recommended was a blend of the new and the old: pest management using natural predators, intercropping agroforestry, silviculture and green manure.
Andrew Gunther: We Can Feed the World Sustainably, Humanely Andrew Gunther 2010
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The approach recommended was a blend of the new and the old: pest management using natural predators, intercropping agroforestry, silviculture and green manure.
Andrew Gunther: We Can Feed the World Sustainably, Humanely 2010
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Unlike silviculture groups and pulp-and-paper industries that plant only one kind of species in a large area, a practice known as monoculture, Maathai was specific about the need for correct trees being planted in the correct places.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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Looking ahead three to five years it is possible to see a dramatic shift back towards a robust silviculture sector.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Treeplanting to Die and Be Reborn? 2008
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Unlike silviculture groups and pulp-and-paper industries that plant only one kind of species in a large area, a practice known as monoculture, Maathai was specific about the need for correct trees being planted in the correct places.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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Nature-based silviculture for sustaining a variety of boreal forest values.
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Swedish forest policy also states that forests should be able to sustain hunting and the gathering of wild mushrooms and berries as well as active silviculture.
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Finnish silviculture, managing for timber production and conservation.
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