What are the differences between tree farms and forests?

Question

main differences...

Answer 1

Tree farms are organized for a specific end use. This requires controlling the resident population as much as possible to increase final production. Any lacking factors in soil or atmosphere are supplemented. The creation is immediate with no intermediate stages of development, no changes in originating population. They are very static except in growth. Duration is brief.
A forest appears in stages with varying populations over time until a climax forest occurs. Even this is not static as it usually follows some episodic fluctuation due to fire, infestation, erosion, climate shifts, or plate tectonics. The forest follows annual shifts in response to soil and atmospheric changes with no major influx of supplements unless it is seismic in origin like a fall of volcanic ash for fertilizer or the shift in a rivers course.
The inhabitants diversity will be as high as geologic and other long term factors will allow. High population diversity is more likely to be resistant to perturbations especially in sedentary or restricted life forms. Diversity is the buffering system for the forest biome but it is not present in any prescribed numbers, or order.

Answer 2

I know a couple who owns a tree farm. They own 20-30 acres of land. They have a small spot for their house and such and the rest is covered in commericially planted pine trees. They were planted as babies and they are well looked after making sure that even during droughts they are watered and that they are free from bugs and disease. Every year they harvest the pine straw that has fallen from the trees and sell that. once the trees are big enough to cut. the company comes back and takes their trees.

After that the process starts all over again.

Answer 3

A tree farm is a place where trees are planted with the intent to uproot them in the future & sell them.

A forest is usually a natural occurrence and not intended to be uprooted or cut down. It should take quite a bit of work (legal vs. physical) in order for a forest to be removed.

Answer 4

tree farms are commercialy planted saplings being grown and harvested for commercial use such as lumber. forests are trees of a wild origin.

Answer 5

Forests aren't planted in straight rows.

Answer 6

tree farms -------------- forests
Homogeous -------------- Heterogenous
man made ---------------- Natural
Selected flora&Fauna ------------- Multi Dimensional
Exmple:Mango Orchard ------ Western ghats of India