red forest

Definitions

1. A forest (group of domains) having high security and limited access, used for administrative purposes.
2. A red forest in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Polesia, Ukraine; a highly radioactive and highly contaminated pine forest caused by fallout from the Chornobyl-Vladimir Lenin nuclear power plant meltdown disaster accident.
3. A forest that has died, leaving reddening foliage and trees.
4. A forest contaminated with nuclear fallout.
5. A forest killed by an infestation of mountain pine beetle.

Equivalents

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