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Tongass National Forest, Alaska, the largest national forest in the United States

Welcome to WikiProject Forestry! This project is focused on organizing and improving articles on the science, profession and practice of forestry, including those on forests, forest ecology, forest products, deforestation and related topics.

Scope

• This WikiProject covers everything related to the profession, science and practice of forestry around the world.

Forestry articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			3	6			9
FL		1					1
GA	1	1	4	6			12
B	2	10	21	25		1	59
C	5	31	88	152		3	279
Start	3	39	163	610		7	822
Stub		7	50	498	1	1	557
List	2	6	14	42			64
Category				1	419		420
Disambig					29		29
File					6		6
Portal					2		2
Project					18		18
Template					38		38
NA				3	53		56
Other					13		13
Assessed	13	95	343	1,343	579	12	2,385
Unassessed						2	2
Total	13	95	343	1,343	579	14	2,387
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 8,769			Ω = 5.05

Goals

• Increase depth and scope of articles related to forestry on Wikipedia
• Provide a scientific base while conveying technical information that is accessible to the general public
• Counter systematic bias on Wikipedia by strengthening coverage of forestry-related topics around the world

Project tasks

See also: WikiProject Forestry article to do's

• Watch forestry articles assessed under AlexNewArtBot (see below)
• Develop forest history articles
• Move images hosted on Wikipedia to the Wikimedia Commons if not already done so
• Create and maintain forestry-related categories in the Commons
• Increase and maintain links between articles in other language Wikipedias. Those with good forestry coverage include:

* French - see fr:Portail:Bois et forêt and fr:Catégorie:Sylviculture

* German - see de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Forstwirtschaft

Alerts

The article alerts list provides information on which forestry-related Wikipedia articles are subject to various discussions, including peer review requests, or are in need of urgent assistance and/or review. Requested moves

• 10 Aug 2022 – Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Hyrcanian forests by No such user (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 15 Apr 2022 – Undergrowth (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Understory by Lmalena (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Jul 2021 – Tree farm (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Tree plantation by Sadads (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 10 Aug 2022 – Draft:Madison's Lumber Reporter (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by KetaDesign (t · c)
• 28 Jul 2022 – Draft:Tony Rinaudo (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Blue Moses (t · c)
• 21 Jul 2022 – Draft:Alexander Martin (arborist) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Lukasdragon (t · c)

New articles

Please feel free to improve these new forestry-related articles, listed below from AlexNewArtBot/ForestrySearchResult.

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Parent WikiProject

• WikiProject Science

Related WikiProjects

See also

• Index of forestry articles
• Outline of forestry

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