Definition of "forestry" []

• The science and art of cultivating, maintaining, and developing forests. (noun)
• The management of a forestland. (noun)
• A forestland. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We must not forget that the export trade in forestry is what has kept the industry alive and without the export trade it will be difficult to get government to. put the money into our forests."
• "It's like talking about my sexual attraction to trees; it doesn't exist; forestry is an asexual topic to me."
• "But it also envisions renewed efficiency efforts, improved regional planning to reduce sprawl, more installation of distributed solar power on rooftops, changes in forestry and water-distribution practices, and so on."