wood lots

Small forested tracts

A wood lot is a small area of forest, typically owned as part of a farm or rural property and maintained as a source of firewood, timber, or building materials.

The term is primarily North American: The family harvested maple syrup from their wood lot each spring.

Also spelled as one word: woodlot.

Related

lumber · plantations · forestry · coppicing · stumpage · stand · silviculture · wildlife habitat · brush pile · fence posts · cordwood · forest stewardship · sawlogs · seedling · sustainable harvesting · biodiversity · tree farm · back forty

Categories
Opposites
land cover/vegetation type

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Land for growing produce

open fields · pastureland · meadows · grassland · hayfields

land development status

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Land for growing produce

subdivisions · building sites · construction sites · parking lots · industrial sites

vegetation density

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Treeless forest spaces

open fields · prairies · grasslands · barrens · scrubland

Family

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G