'a maple forest' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English
You could use it to describe a particular type of forest, such as in the example sentence: "We spent the day hiking through a beautiful maple forest in New England."
I live in a house in the middle of a maple forest in Canada.
Many of the new book's settings are similarly malevolent, or infused with garish sickliness; conversely, spiritual salvation in the form of a maple forest "stretches for hundreds of miles in all directions like a secret undiscovered inland sea".
Deep in a maple forest in China's Jilin province, Feng's team is scrambling over rough terrain to reach cameras and download photos from one of the 2000 motion-sensing cameras one of hundreds of such visits they have to make every year.
Our hike that day took us from a picnic area across a river and into tall maple forest, where we walked a circular route, popping out briefly into small fields and eventually returning to the river.
The 82 acre preserve protects "the largest remaining remnant of the vast maple forest that became Downers Grove", and has been categorized a globally endangered ecosystem.
Dr. Keesing and her colleagues Brian Allen, a graduate student at Rutgers, and Dr. Richard Ostfeld, animal ecologist and tick expert at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., studied blacklegged ticks on 14 privately owned patches of maple forest ranging from 2 to 18 acres.
Our experimental plots are located in a beech-maple forest in southwest Pennsylvania [Trillium Trail Nature Reserve (hereafter TT), Allegheny County, PA, USA: 40°52′01.40″N; 79°90′10.75″withith a rich herbaceous perennial understory flora (Knight et al. 2009).
We believe the simultaneous consideration of direct and indirect interactions shaping vegetation structure and composition using techniques such as SEM will advance understanding of the current transition from an oak hickory to a maple-dominated forest landscape.
We studied the effects of partial cutting on understory vegetation communities within 19 mixed maple forests in an agriculture-dominated landscape in southwestern Ontario.
As I passed from the ferry stop through souvenir stands and into gardens manicured into the pattern of a Savonnerie rug, the palace appeared, a bizarre sight amid the chestnut and maple forests.
I spend as much of my summer as I can on one of the islands north of Seattle, a verdant paradise of fir and giant maple forests reaching down to rock beaches.
