primeval forest
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For example, how much primeval forest has been cleared for an agricultural product or how the land was previously used.
From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2024
It wasn’t a situation in which I ever expected to find myself: crouched in a Romanian meadow at the edge of a primeval forest, listening for bison footsteps.
From New York Times • May 18, 2022
In “Sacred Groves,” Madhav Gadgil discusses the ecological benefits of areas of primeval forest in India protected as the homes of deities.
From Scientific American • Apr. 6, 2019
Train tracks didn’t cut narrow tracks through the primeval forest, but blighted wide swaths of the landscape, and the cleared field was no longer bounded by the infinite wood.
From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2017
When the area was first settled, the plateau was covered with a dense primeval forest.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
