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A forest that clocks in, grows up, and clocks out as lumber.
means A plantation of trees grown and harvested specifically for timber or Christmas-tree sale, rather than left as natural woodland.
from Straightforward compound English: 'tree' plus 'farm,' the latter from Anglo-Norman 'ferme' (a fixed rent or leased land), rooted in Latin 'firmus' (fixed, firm) — because a farm was originally land held under a fixed rental agreement. The term 'tree farm' itself is a 20th-century American coinage, born alongside industrial forestry's shift to treating timber as a planted, rotated crop rather than something merely cut from wild forest.
- rotation age
- trees harvested on schedule, like crops, decades not seasons
- not a forest
- monoculture rows beat biodiversity for efficiency
- christmas trees
- most US holiday trees come from these farms
- carbon math
- young fast-growing trees absorb CO2 quicker than old ones