silviculture
nounEtymology From silva + -i- + culture. From Latin silva (“forest”) + cultūra (“cultivation”).
1
The care and development of forests in order to obtain a product or provide a benefit.
- Wilderness is gone. Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 598:
- Derived terms
- agrosilviculture, aquasilviculture, silvicultural, silviculturist
- Related terms
- silvopasture