"thin forest" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It typically refers to a forest with few trees or sparse vegetation. An example sentence is: "We decided to take a shortcut, and followed a path that led us through a thin forest."
Michael Arad's design, called "Reflecting Absence," involves a thin forest of eastern white pine trees, which the designer specifies as "over 100 feet tall," to be arranged randomly, echoing the random distribution of death.
A separate measure of aridity also suggests to the researchers that Aramis was so hot and dry that it could have supported at most a thin forest along a river or small woodland in an otherwise open bushland, says geochemist Thure Cerling of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
The study site is a thin forest patch of roughly 65 ha of seasonally flooded tropical rainforest.
In general, the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management seem to prefer preventive fires over cutting in their efforts to thin forests.
Money to burn and thin forests here and elsewhere in the West is part of the National Fire Plan.
The proposal, for a 130percentt budget increase, would help pay for aggressive new efforts to thin forests near urban areas that face severe fire risks.
Today in Oregon, a state he lost by fewer than 7,000 votes, Mr. Bush was distracted from his plan to expand logging as a way to thin forests and reduce fire risk.
And it gave the Forest Service the go-ahead to accelerate a controversial effort to thin forests in order to prevent wildfires.
The measure authorizes spending of $760 million a year--an increase of $340 million over this year's level--to thin forests on federal lands that have grown dense due to a century of fire suppression.
3.1 Forest management type generally reduces stand density and, according to the intensity of thinning (forest management type), it influences mating systems.
All of that, local officials say, was enough to convince many residents that a thinner forest was preferable to the one that might go up in flames.
