The phrase "a native forest" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a forest that is composed of indigenous plant species and has not been significantly altered by human activity.
Example: "The conservation project aims to restore a native forest that supports local wildlife and biodiversity."
Alternatives: "an indigenous forest" or "a natural forest".
Both natives and exotics preferred agricultural soils to a plantation forest and a native forest soil.
The warbling of the tiny red honeycreeper, a native forest bird, rang through the ferns and ohia trees.
NEW ZEALAND Tucked into a native forest on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, the new Matakauri Lodge (matakauri.co.nz) offers upscale adventurers doorfront access to the aptly named Remarkables mountain range.
Rotorua Canopy Tours are billed as a native forest canopy zipline tour, which is a wordy way of saying that you fly through the trees like a tui, though with panicked screaming taking the place of beautiful birdsong.
So Mr. Jungles planted a native forest near the street, offering passersby a taste of old Florida Jamaicaa caper, Florida boxwood, saw palmettos and thatch palms, darling plum and native silver palm, and plenty of wildflowers, like tickseed and bulbine.
Community concerns about potential negative environmental effects are possibly the largest barrier to establishing a native forest-based biomass harvesting industry in Australia (Rothe et al. 2015).
A native forests (NF) feature class was created by removing plantation areas from woody vegetation coverage.
We conducted survival and growth experiments on A. dealbata seedlings in three sites near Concepción, Chile (36°S 72°W) under three conditions: under Acacia stand, in a close native forest and on an intermediate matrix between these two conditions.
As a consequence, native forest harvest is highly regulated, with only a small part of New Zealand's privately owned forest covered by sustainable management plans approved by the Ministry for Primary Industries (Donnelly 2011).
Reptile diversity and abundance was compared between a restored native forest (Los Colorados Biological Station, 10,000 ha) and an adjacent overgrazed area (Campo Grande, 7500 ha).
