Talk:forestry

RFD discussion: April 2013–April 2014

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forestry

It seems to me that these two senses should be merged:

• The science of planting and growing trees in forests.
• The art and practice of planting and growing trees in forests.

and that these two senses should be merged:

• The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.
• Commercial tree farming.

However, the translations are different, which is puzzling. DAVilla 05:46, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

The second, at least, strikes me as different; a tree farm is not a forest.--Prosfilaes (talk) 07:31, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

I understood "commercial tree farming" to include forests. DAVilla 05:15, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

I support merging sense 1 and 2 (perhaps as “The science, art and pratice of […] ”), but 3 and 4 strike me as different, unless parallel rows of same age, same species trees counts as a forest. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 19:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

I support merging sense 1 and 2 along Ungoliant's lines.

Senses 3 and 4 could be merged by simply replacing "forests" with "trees" in sense 3. Further revision might be desirable. I don't think that the non-tree portions of the forest environment play anything other than a supporting role to the trees, in the main uses of this term. Also, I wonder whether some may be trying to redefine forestry to refer to management of the forest ecosystem without regard to its commercial use. DCDuring TALK 00:09, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

w:Forestry says "Modern forestry generally embraces a broad range of concerns, including assisting forests to provide timber as raw material for wood products, wildlife habitat', natural water quality management, recreation, landscape and community protection, employment, aesthetically appealing landscapes, biodiversity management, watershed management, erosion control, and preserving forest as 'sinks' for atmospheric carbon dioxide." Italics bring out examples where merely talking about trees and farming isn't good enough.--Prosfilaes (talk) 06:14, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Kept. No consensus for deletion is apparent. bd2412 T 15:39, 28 April 2014 (UTC)