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-====Cryptoforest definition====+====  Cryptoforestry: Psychogeography in the Anthropocene ==== 
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 +‘Crypto’ from Greek meaning hidden or secret, related to ‘cryptic’, of unsure or obscure meaning. A cryptoforest incorporates both: they may be forests that are hidden or it may refer to forests of unsure pedigree, because no other words suffices. Cryptoforests are a feeble category within the psychogeographic classification of landscapes. You do find cryptoforests in the centre but the chance of finding one increases as you move outward and cracks will appear in the urban armour as you move further and further in the perimeter. I invite you to think of the cryptoforest not as a disturbance of urban hegemony, but as the place where the division between city and nature becomes meaningless. 
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 +http://cryptoforest.blogspot.nl/2013/12/cryptoforestry-psychogeography-in.html 
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 +====Cryptoforest definition, second draft====
  
 The root meaning of the English word 'forest' is "a large area of land covered with trees and plants". Etymologically the word is derived from the latin 'forestem silvam' and it has had it's current meaning at least since the 9nth century when the word 'forest' appeared in Old French. Special interest groups may use narrower definitions. Biology proposes that all properly drained lands left to themselves will eventually become forested as the final phase of ecological succession.  The root meaning of the English word 'forest' is "a large area of land covered with trees and plants". Etymologically the word is derived from the latin 'forestem silvam' and it has had it's current meaning at least since the 9nth century when the word 'forest' appeared in Old French. Special interest groups may use narrower definitions. Biology proposes that all properly drained lands left to themselves will eventually become forested as the final phase of ecological succession. 
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 (Areas that feel like forests but technically probably aren’t; states of vegetation for which lay-language has no words.) (Areas that feel like forests but technically probably aren’t; states of vegetation for which lay-language has no words.)
  
 +**3) Invisible Forests**
 +(Forests that have become cryptic, forests in camouflage, no known examples.) 
  
-**3) Unappreciated forests** +**4) Precognitive forests**  
 +(Lands that are on the brink of becoming forested, lands in which one can 'see' the forest it will bear.) 
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 +**5) Unappreciated forests** 
 (Forests regarded as zones of waste and weed, forests shaming planners, developers, and the neighbourhood.) (Forests regarded as zones of waste and weed, forests shaming planners, developers, and the neighbourhood.)
  
  
-**4) Unknown forests** +**6) Unknown forests** 
 (Forests nobody knows about.) (Forests nobody knows about.)
  
  
-**5) Precognitive forests**  +
-(Lands that are on the brink of becoming forested, lands in which one can 'see' the forest it will bear.)+
  
  
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