The phrase "acting forest" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a specific context, such as discussing a forest that is being managed or utilized for a particular purpose, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The acting forest in the conservation area is being monitored for its ecological impact."
Alternatives: "managed forest" or "operational forest".
Craig Bobzien, the acting deputy forest supervisor for the Bitterroot National Forest, said logging would prevent thousands of trees from blowing down and creating a fire threat for homes scattered throughout the ponderosa forests in a scenic mountain valley that has been a magnet for retirees and others seeking a rural existence.
It is, above all things, a fantastic display of old-fashioned character acting from Forest Whitaker in a satanically villainous role.
Forests acting as sinks are considered to moderate the global climate.
Mollie Matteson, acting executive director of Forest Watch, one of the groups in the coalition, said that her organization was not opposed to mountain biking, but that the solitude and the more primitive forms of recreation in some sections of the Green Mountain National Forest should not be interrupted by bikes, which can speed erosion and do other damage.
He told us that domesticated rats set free in the forest begin acting like wild rats within a few hours.
Dead wood, whether standing (snags) or down, plays an important role in forest ecology, acting as habitat for animals such as cavity-nesting birds, plants and microbial lives.
The results demonstrate that these human-modified forests are acting as refuges for the remnant native biodiversity.
Although other studies suggest mismatches between the habitat cues used by cardinals and how those features affect nesting success (e.g., higher nest predation in exotic shrubs), these results provide no evidence that urban forests were acting as ecological traps for cardinals.
"Biologists were ignoring these huge population trends and acting as if only original forest has conservation value, and that's just wrong," said Joe Wright, a senior scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute here, who set off a firestorm two years ago by suggesting that the new forests could substantially compensate for rain forest destruction.
In the presence of legacies, landscape age determines whether a tropical forest landscape is acting as a carbon source or a sink.
