which sentence is preferred

Anonymouswhich sentence is preferred

c. We should protect forests against fire.

b sounds like you are offering the forest an alternative which it may turn down.

Anonymousb sounds like you are offering the forest an alternative which it may turn down.

You gave me precious information. Thanks a million.

Mister Micawberc. We should protect forests against fire.

Thank you so much. Plus, I have one question.

In that context, the noun forest is used only plural like forests?

I searched a dictionary :

[count]

• 
  a vast forest
  

[noncount]

• 
  Fires destroyed

Anonymous I'd say forest, not forests, should be used, if anything.

You're not quite right here.

There are many forests in our country. They are separated by farmland and cities.
We have pine forests and hardwood forests in the east, the great redwood forests in California, the Joshua tree forests in the desert and the mangrove forests in the swam

AlpheccaStarsWe protect forests from fire, all of them.

Thank you so much. Then, how I understand the following phrases.

• forest fires
• the forest floor

Reading aforementioned phrases, I thought a zero/definite article + forest was used to mean to generalise, not to specify.

Anonymousforest firesthe forest floor

These are nouns used as adjectives, and we usually use those in singular:

the shoe stores
the bicycle pump
desert resorts

AnonymousReading aforementioned phrases, I thought a zero/definite article + forest was used to mean to generalise, not to specify.

Mister MicawberThe article is attached to the noun, not the adjective: the floor, the stores, the pump.

Thanks a million. I failed to exemplify.
As a result, in the context, only forests, not forest can be grammatical and semantically correct?
Then, how I understand the following sentence :
Thousands of hectares of forest are destroyed ea

Anonymoushen, how I understand the following sentence : Thousands of hectares of forest are destroyed each year.

It is speaking of the type of habitat in contradistinction to desert, prairie, etc.

Anonymous still would think that in that context zero article + (uncountable) forest can be possible in a general sense.

Not if y

Mister MicawberNot if you wish your sentence to sound native.

Thank you for your reply . It is crucial. As a learner and non-native, What I can do is just following your sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language. If so, I have no words for it.

What I just want to say is as follows. Wh