'conifer forest' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
Generally, this phrase would be used to describe a type of forest dominated by coniferous trees, such as pines or firs. For example: "The nearby conifer forest was filled with towering Douglas firs."
To our right rose a mountain wall, covered with conifer forest, and above, bare rock shrouded in snow.
It does fine, for instance, in a conifer forest, without rich acorns and beechnuts; in such an environment the grays will leave for a better habitat elsewhere.
Tens of thousands of acres of mixed conifer forest and chaparral are now nothing but blackened soil and spindly, charred tree trunks.
WASHINGTON PARK ATTRACTIONS Imagine Central Park as a steeply sloping conifer forest sprinkled with child-friendly attractions and you'll have some idea of Washington Park.
The rock exploded mid-air and released the energy of a large hydrogen bomb, which flattened 2000 sq km of conifer forest.
They were made when conifer forest and grassland had replaced oaks as the climate cooled before an era when glaciers covered the land.
That design included a meadow and bog, a deciduous forest, a conifer forest and limestone and serpentine rock formations, as well as pinelands and a kettle pond.
Unlike previous reconstructions of a dark tropical swamp, palaeobotanist Eva-Maria Sadowski and Prof. Alexander Schmidt from the University of Göttingen found evidence for a warm climate with a mixed conifer forest: the open canopy interspersed with flowering plants.
Pollen studies indicate that a pine-birch forest was replaced by one dominated by oaks, which in turn was replaced by a conifer forest, changes indicating that the climate varied from cool to temperate to cool, respectively.
Land cover is predominantly conifer forest (Fig. 2a).
