What is "second-growth forest"

Usage examples of "second-growth forest".

Kira could not tell this second-growth forest from the uncut primary forest a little to the west, even though it had shown up clearly on the scans from space.

I have lost the trail on an Oregon mountain in logged-over second-growth forest, where my individual relation to the trees and undergrowth and soil and my relative position in their earth-and-ocean-wide realm, as an animal and as a human, were, you might say, brought home to me—.

I saw a cluster of Deadheads looking for magic mushrooms out on the west lawn beside the second-growth forest.

The second-growth forest had been cleared, and now, on a barren cliff two hundred yards away, earthmoving trucks spewed dirt and rock from gaping chutes.

Meanwhile, the rough wooded ground, mostly second-growth forest, between the West Gap and the Harph would hide the eight thousand from any scouts less determined than the Zarthani Knights, who would have to fight their way past Harmakros before they could do any good.

This was typical Virginia second-growth forest, full of low brush and creepers.

Once the track passed through straggly young beeches and alders that had to be a second-growth forest, and on the other side was land that had once been plowed.

Standing back within the edge of a dense second-growth forest, Jerym looked out between trees and across nearly half a mile of open pasture and field to where the Spice River flowed.

Once the track passed through straggly young beeches and alders that had to be second-growth forest, and on the other side was land that had once been plowed.