What is "woodland"

Woodland \Wood"land\, n. Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are allowed to grow, either for fuel or timber.

Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again.
--Pope.

Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended.
--Bancroft.

Woodland \Wood"land\, a. Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan.

She had a rustic, woodland air.
--Wordsworth.

Like summer breeze by woodland stream.
--Keble.

Woodland caribou. (Zo["o]l.) See under Caribou.

Old English wudulond; see wood (n.) + land (n.). As an adjective from mid-14c.

a. 1 Of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland. 2 (context obsolete English) Having the character of a #Noun. n. land covered with woody vegetation.

n. land that is covered with trees and shrubs [syn: forest, timberland, timber]

A woodland is an area covered in trees.

Woodland may also refer to:

Woodland is a neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Woodland Avenue serves as a main route in the community. The neighborhood is located between Fairmont Street and Martin Road. Other routes include Calvary Road.

Woodland, in Huntsville, Texas, was the residence of Sam Houston from 1847 to 1859. The clapboard-over-log house is on the grounds of Sam Houston State University, and is part of the Sam Houston Memorial Museum.

Woodland is a historic home and farm located at St. Thomas Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built about 1760, and is a -story, three-bay by two-bay, fieldstone dwelling with a gable roof. A three-bay by two-bay limestone section was added in 1790, and a -story rear wing was added in 1907. A two-story porch was added to the 1790 section after 1910. Also on the property is a contributing spring house.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Woodland is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. Woodlands may support an understory of shrubs and herbaceous plants including grasses. Woodland may form a transition to shrubland under drier conditions or during early stages of primary or secondary succession. Higher density areas of trees with a largely closed canopy that provides extensive and nearly continuous shade are referred to as forests.

Conservationists have worked hard to preserve woodlands, because people are destroying animals habitats when building homes and other buildings. For example, the woodlands in Northwest Indiana have been preserved as part of the Indiana Dunes.

Woodland is used in British woodland management to mean tree-covered areas which arose naturally and which are then managed, while forest is usually used in the British Isles to describe plantations, usually more extensive, or hunting Forests, which are a land use with a legal definition and may not be wooded at all. The term " ancient woodland" is used in British nature conservation to refer to any wooded land that has existed since 1600, and often (though not always) for thousands of years, since the last Ice Age (equivalent to the American term old-growth forest).

Woodlot is a closely related American term, which refers to a stand of trees generally used for firewood. While woodlots often technically have closed canopies, they are so small that light penetration from the edge makes them ecologically closer to woodland than forest.

Woodland is a light rail stop on the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch, located off Washington Street ( MA-16) between the Waban and Auburndale villages of Newton, Massachusetts. It serves as access to the Newton-Wellesley Hospital, as well as a park and ride station for nearby Route 128.

Woodland station was originally opened in 1886 by the Boston and Albany Railroad. The line closed in 1958 for conversion to light rail, and a new Woodland station slightly to the east in 1959. In 2006, the station was rebuilt for handicapped accessibility and a parking garage built as part of an adjacent transit-oriented development.