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Top 10+ Forests
This Category contains the Top 10 Forests. The Top is based on visitors VOTES. You can VOTE or Suggest your favorite Forest.
1. Tongass National Forest
The Tongass National Forest is one of the most remarkable of America's national forests. Nearly the size of Maine, it is clearly the largest forest and shelters a vast swath of virgin temperate rain forest dominated by old-growth spruce and hemlock. Imposing fjords serve as gateways into a labyrinth of ice-blue water veins that penetrate deep into the forest's remote and rugged interior. Sea kayaking is the way to explore the Tongass. read more...
No. : 1.
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2. Sequoia National Forest
Sequoia National Forest is located in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The national forest is named for the majestic Giant Sequoia trees which populate 38 groves within the boundaries of the forest. The Giant Sequoia National Monument is located within the forest. Other notable features include glacier-carved landscapes and impressive granite monoliths.
The forest covers 4,630.55 km², and ranges in elevation from 1,000 feet (300 m) in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada to over 12,000 feet (3,700 m). Its Sequoia groves are part of its 790 km2 of old growth, which also consists of Jeffrey Pine, Red Fir), Coast Douglas-fir, Ponderosa Pine, White Fir, and Lodgepole read more...
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3. The Black Forest
The Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south. The highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 meters. The region is almost rectangular with a length of 200 km and breadth of 60 km. Hence it has an area of approximately 12,000 km². read more...
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4. Letea Forest
Letea Forest is one of the oldest natural reservations in Romania. Letea forest is located between the Sulina and Chilia branches of Danube in the Danube Delta and it covers an area of aproximatively 2,825 ha.
This forest was the initial foundation of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve which has been declared a World Heritage Site and internationally recognized as a Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in 1992.
Letea Forest is formed mainly from White Poplar, Black Poplar, Elm tree, English Oak, Silver Lime, Narrow-leafed Ash, Common Alder, … Along with these ones above it is completed by a rich scale of sub-shrub species.[2]
It is also home for read more...
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5. Sherwood Forest
Sherwood Forest is a Royal Forest in Nottinghamshire, England, that is famous through its historical association with the legend of Robin Hood. Continuously afforested since the end of the Ice Age, Sherwood is today reduced to a 423 square kilometers remnant surrounding the village of Edwinstowe, the site of Thoresby Hall. The wooded forest of today is a remnant of a much larger royal hunting forest, named as the "shire wood" of Nottinghamshire, which in fact extended into several neighboring counties, bordered on the west along the River Erewash and the Forest of East Derbyshire. read more...
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6. Compiegne Forest
Compiegne Forest is a forest in northeastern France, extending over 120 sq km (46 sq mi). Once a hunting ground for the kings of France, it is today a favorite historic site for tourists. It contains a huge 15th-century castle rebuilt in the 1850s by Napoleon III. The forest was the scene of heavy fighting during World War I and the site of the signing of armistices in 1918 and 1940. read more...
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7. American Samoa Forest
American Samoa National Park's 10,500 acres of paleotropical rainforests, pristine coral reefs, and magnificent white sand beaches are located on the three South Pacific islands of Tutuila, Ofu, and Ta'u. Two lush rainforest preserves and a coral reef are home to unique tropical animals including the flying fox, Pacific boa, tortoises, and an array of birds and fish.
From the mountaintops down to the ocean's edge, these islands are covered with a diverse, mixed-species, paleotropical (Old World) rainforest. Samoa's rainforest is closely related to that of Asia and Africa, as opposed to the neotropical (New World) rainforests of Central and South America.
Depending on elevation, read more...
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8. Redwood National Forest
The Redwood National and State Parks is located in the United States, along the coast of northern California. The parks consist of a combined area of 534.12 km2 located entirely within Del Norte and Humboldt Counties and they protect 45% of all remaining Coastal Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) old-growth forests, totaling at least 157.75 km2. These trees are the tallest and one of the most massive tree species on Earth.
In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 8,100 km2 of the California coast. read more...
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9. The Daintree Rain Forest
The Daintree rain forest is the oldest rain forest in the world over one hundred and thirty-five million years old, stunning beauty, somewhere that contains the highest number of plant and animal species that are rare, or threatened with extinction, anywhere in the world. The Daintree Rain forest is located in the Far North of Queensland, visitors need to cross the crocodile inhabited Daintree River by ferry to access this tropical place.
The Daintree offers untouched natural beauty, this is where you can experience picture postcard deserted golden beaches at cape tribulation or cow bay, fantastic Hiking Trails, remote wilderness and one of the most significant environmental areas in read more...
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10. Kashima Jingu Forest
Believed to date from 660 BC, this supreme shrine of Hitachi province is one of the three principal shrines in the Kanto region, along with Ikisu Shrine, also in Ibaraki, and Katori Shrine in Chiba prefecture. Kashima Jingu boasts 800 kinds of trees such as cedar, oak, chinquapin, and fir. One grove is designated a Natural Monument. Due to the richness of its native bird life, it has also been designated the Kashima Wildlife Protection Area. read more...
No. : 10.
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