DCHP-3

second growth

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a growth, especially of trees, after the original cover has been removed by logging.

Quotations

1880
Their valleys are frequently wooded, sometimes with patches of the original forest, but usually with second-growth timber such as is commonly found on the prairie.
1891
. . . their way ran through . . . the scrubby "second growth". . . .
1925
When he rounded this bluff which, to the south, trailed off into smaller second-growth of poplar, skirting the Marsh, a great piece of good luck befell him.
1965
Cougars travel over long ranges and are found in various ecological types of terrain such as slash, mature forest and second growth.