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A forest
Forest
A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending where you are in the world, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have various classification according to how and what of the forest is composed...

is a large area covered by trees.
Forest may also refer to:

Places

Forest, Belgium
Forest, Belgium
Forest or Vorst is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.The town is commonly known for its concert hall...
Forest, Ontario
Forest, Ontario
Forest is a small town located near Sarnia, Ontario in Canada. It is very close to the shore of Lake Huron and is part of the municipality of Lambton Shores and the county of Lambton.- Population :...

, Canada
Forest, Guernsey
Forest, Guernsey
The Forest is a parish in Guernsey. It is the highest parish on the island, with altitudes of up to about 100 m. The full title being Ste Margurite de la Foret after the parish church....
Forest, North Yorkshire
Forest, North Yorkshire
Forest is a hamlet in Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England. It is situated near the villages of Scorton and Bolton-on-Swale.The only public amenity in Forest is a Red telephone box.Forest is not currently served by any public transport as of 2007....

, England, UK

United States

Forest, California
Forest, California
Forest is a small unincorporated community in Sierra County, California, United States. Today, the town is mostly abandoned, although its population swelled to thousands during the California Gold Rush. Today, old buildings still line Main Street, such as a general store, a dance hall, a school...
Forest, Indiana
Forest, Indiana
Forest is an unincorporated town in Forest Township, Clinton County, Indiana.-History:The town of Forest was platted on September 1, 1874 by Henry Y. Morrison to serve as a station along the Frankfort and Kokomo Railroad...
Forest, Louisiana
Forest, Louisiana
Forest is a village in West Caroll Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 275 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Forest is located at ....

, a village
Forest Township, Cheboygan County, Michigan
Forest Township, Cheboygan County, Michigan
Forest Township is a civil township of Cheboygan County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,080 at the 2000 census.- Communities :...
Forest Township, Genesee County, Michigan
Forest Township, Genesee County, Michigan
Forest Township is a general law township of Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,738 at the 2000 census.-Communities:...
Forest Township, Missaukee County, Michigan
Forest Township, Missaukee County, Michigan
Forest Township is a civil township of Missaukee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,082 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all land.-Demographics:...
Forest, Mississippi
Forest, Mississippi
Forest is a city in Scott County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 5,987 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Scott County.-Geography:Forest is located at ....
Forest, Ohio
Forest, Ohio
Forest is a village in Hardin and Wyandot counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 1,488 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Forest is located at ....
Forest County, Pennsylvania
Forest County, Pennsylvania
Forest County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of 2010, the population is 7,716. Forest County is famous as a rural retreat. Nearly 75% of all dwellings in the county are second or vacation homes . Forest County does not have a single traffic light, the only county in the...
Forest, Virginia
Forest, Virginia
Forest is a census-designated place in Bedford County, Virginia, United States. The population was 8,006 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Forest is located at ....
Forest, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Forest, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Forest is a town in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,108 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Dotyville is located in the town.-Geography:...
Forest, Richland County, Wisconsin
Forest, Richland County, Wisconsin
Forest is a town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 390 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Tunnelville is located partially in the town.-Geography:...
Forest, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Forest, St. Croix County, Wisconsin
Forest is a town in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 590 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Forest is located in the town.-Geography:...
Forest, Vernon County, Wisconsin
Forest, Vernon County, Wisconsin
Forest is a town in Vernon County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 583 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Dilly and Valley are located in the town.-Geography:...
Forest County, Wisconsin
Forest County, Wisconsin
Forest County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,304. Its county seat is Crandon.-Indian Reservations:...

Sports

Forest F.C.
Forest F.C.
Forest F.C. is a football club based in Horsham, England. They were established in 1958 and joined the Sussex County League in 1988. For the 2011-12 season, they are members of the Sussex County League Division Three....

, a football club based in Horsham, England
Wanderers F.C.
Wanderers F.C.
Wanderers Football Club is an English amateur football club, based in London, that plays in the Surrey South Eastern Combination. Founded as Forest Football Club in 1859, the club changed its name to Wanderers in 1864....

or Forest F.C., a pioneer football team

Music

Forest (band)
Forest (band)
Forest were an English psychedelic folk / acid folk trio who formed in Grimsby, Lincolnshire in 1966. Made up of brothers Martin Welham, Adrian Welham and school friend Dez Allenby, they started out performing unaccompanied traditional folk music in a similar vein to contemporaries The Watersons...

, a 1960s UK psych-folk band
Forest (George Winston album), 1994
Forest (Circle album)
Forest (Circle album)
Forest is the seventeenth album by Finnish experimental rock band Circle.First released on CD in 2004 by Ektro Records, it was re-issued the following year by No Quarter Records. It was recorded in May 2004, and is the first Circle album to feature mainly acoustic instruments...

, 2004
"A Forest
A Forest
"A Forest" is a single by the English rock band The Cure, released on March 28, 1980 as the only single from their second album Seventeen Seconds. It was their first chart single in the UK, reaching #31; the song was also a hit in the Netherlands, reaching #26. It was also their first single to be...

", a 1980 song by the Cure
"Forest", a song by System of a Down on their second album Toxicity
Toxicity (album)
Toxicity is the second album by American heavy metal band System of a Down. Produced by Rick Rubin, Toxicity was released on September 4, 2001 by American Recordings, debuting at #1 on both the United States, with 220,000 copies, and #1 on the Canadian charts...

Other uses

Forest (painting)
Forest (painting)
Forest is a painting by French painter Paul Cézanne. An oil on canvas, it represents a wooded area close to Aix-en-Provence. It is currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada. - References :*...

, an oil painting by Paul Cézanne
Forest (novel)
Forest (novel)
Forest is a novel written by the award-winning Australian novelist, Sonya Hartnett. It was first published in 2001 in Australia by Viking.-Epigraph:"'Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind." - A. S...

, a 2001 novel by Australian author Sonya Hartnett
Royal forest
Royal forest
A royal forest is an area of land with different meanings in England, Wales and Scotland; the term forest does not mean forest as it is understood today, as an area of densely wooded land...

, feudal hunting preserve
FOREST
FOREST
FOREST is a United Kingdom political pressure group that campaigns from a pro-smoking perspective, opposing measures to reduce tobacco consumption on the grounds of defending a perceived right to smoke tobacco...

, a British smokers' rights organisation
Forest Café
Forest Cafe
The Forest, also referred to as Forest Café, was an independent social centre and arts centre located on Bristo Place, central Edinburgh, Scotland.It was notable for being run by volunteers as a charitable self-sustaining not-for-profit...

, a community café and arts venue in central Edinburgh
Forest Institute
Forest Institute
The School of Professional Psychology at the Forest Institute in Springfield, Missouri is a private non-profit academic institution that was founded in 1979 to provide, "an alternative to the traditional teaching Ph.D...

, a private American university
Forest Laboratories
Forest Laboratories
Forest Laboratories is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, USA. Its revenues for the year ended 31 March 2007 were US$3.4 billion. The company's research and development spending has grown rapidly in recent years, and as of 2007, approached almost a billion US dollars a year,...

, an American pharmaceutical company
Forest Theater
Forest Theater
Founded in 1910, the Forest Theater, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, was one of the earliest outdoor proscenium theaters west of the Rockies. Actor/director Herbert Heron is generally cited as the founder and driving force, and poet/novelist Mary Austin is often credited with suggesting the...

, a theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
Forest, a collection structure in Active Directory
Active Directory
Active Directory is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems. Server computers on which Active Directory is running are called domain controllers....
Forest, a disjoint union of trees in graph theory
Tree (graph theory)
In mathematics, more specifically graph theory, a tree is an undirected graph in which any two vertices are connected by exactly one simple path. In other words, any connected graph without cycles is a tree...

Surname

Frank Forest
Frank Forest
Frank Forest was an American operatic tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the 1930s and 40s.-Biography:Frank Forest was born Frank Hayek in St. Paul, Minnesota on October 17, 1896. He studied pianoforte and singing and at twelve was singing as a soloist in a church choir. At seventeen he taught...

(1896–1976), American opera singer
Jean-Claude Forest
Jean-Claude Forest
Jean-Claude Forest was a writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella.-Biography:...

(1930–1998), French comic book author and creator of Barbarella
Jessé de Forest
Jessé de Forest
Jessé de Forest was the leader of a group of Walloon Huguenots who fled Europe due to religious persecutions. Jessé de Forest emigrated to the New World, where he planned to found New-Belgium...

(1576–1624), leader of a group of Walloon Huguenots fleeing religious persecution
Jim Forest
Jim Forest
Jim Forest is a writer, lay theologian, educator, peace activist. Since 1989, a year after his reception into the Orthodox Church, he has been international secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship as well as editor of its quarterly journal, In Communion. In 1964, while still a Roman Catholic,...

(born 1941), writer, lay theologian, educator, peace activist
John Forest
John Forest
John Forest was an English Franciscan Friar and martyr.Born in the Oxford area, John Forest became a Franciscan Friar Minor of the Regular Observance in 1491. He went on to study theology at the University of Oxford, later becoming confessor to Queen Catherine of Aragon, first wife to King Henry...

(1471–1538), English Roman Catholic martyr and friar
John William De Forest
John William De Forest
John William De Forest was an American soldier and writer of realistic fiction, best known for his Civil War novel Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty.-Early life and career:...

(1826–1906), American soldier and writer
Lee De Forest
Lee De Forest
Lee De Forest was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use...

(1873–1961), American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit
Philippe Forest
Philippe Forest
Philippe Forest is a French author and professor of literature. He has been awarded the First Novel Prix Femina and the Prix Décembre , and his works have been translated into English, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese...

(born 1962), French author and professor of literature
Roy De Forest
Roy De Forest
Roy De Forest was an American painter known for his comic-like patchwork regionalist style, often depicting dogs & other figurative content in his art....

(1930–2007), American painter

Given name

Forest Dewey Dodrill
Forest Dewey Dodrill
Forest Dewey Dodrill was a doctor at Harper University Hospital at Wayne State University in Michigan.Forest Dewey Dodrill was born on 26 January 1902, in Webster Spring. After receiving a bachelor's degree from West Virginia University in 1925, he attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in...

(1902–1997), doctor who performed the first successful open heart surgery
Forest Ray Moulton
Forest Ray Moulton
Forest Ray Moulton was an American astronomer.He was born in Le Roy, Michigan, and was educated at Albion College. After graduating in 1894 , he performed his graduate studies at the University of Chicago and gained a Ph.D. in 1899...

(1872–1952), American astronomer
Forest Sale
Forest Sale
Forest E. "Aggie" Sale was a standout American college basketball player at the University of Kentucky from 1930–31 to 1932–33. He played for coach Adolph Rupp and was one of Rupp's first NCAA All-Americans....

(1911–1985), American basketball player
Forest Whitaker
Forest Whitaker
Forest Steven Whitaker is an American actor, producer, and director. He has earned a reputation for intensive character study work for films such as Bird and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and for his recurring role as ex-LAPD Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh on the gritty, award-winning television...

(born 1961), American actor, producer and director