[Tagging] Forest vs Wood

[Matthijs Melissen]

On 20 August 2014 18:45, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wood: Woodland with no forestry
> Forest: Managed woodland or woodland plantation.

How do you define forestry or 'managing' forests?

Most forests in the Netherlands are managed by Staatsbosbeheer, the
national forest trust.
They have as policy (at least for some of their forests) not to
intervene in their forests unless there is danger to visitors. The
forests are typically planted by humans centuries ago, but I can
imagine most of the trees nowadays have grown naturally (although I
have no way to verify this). How would you classify these?

I'm not the only one with this problem. There are hundreds of
natural=wood objects within urban London.

It seems that in the areas I checked, natural=wood is mainly used for
small patches of wood, and landuse=forest for larger forests.

-- Matthijs