Mapping fenced-off natural regeneration areas

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Hi all! In parks in my city, there are a number of what I’d call “natural regeneration areas” – fenced-off segments of wooded areas (ranging from <1 acre to a couple acres) where native plants are manually planted and kept safe from humans or browsing deer.

Is there any precedent on how to map these areas? (Other than the obvious barrier=fence.) For the one example I’ve mapped so far I’ve gone with landuse=forest since it could maybe be considered a human-managed wooded area (as opposed to the surrounding natural=wood) but I’m not sure that this is really the correct way to map this. leisure=nature_preserve didn’t really seem to apply either, since they’re (relatively) on such a small scale. Maybe boundary=protected_area with protect_class=7 or protect_class=14? (Though that also feels like it’s not really meant for areas at this small of a scale, though I could be wrong.)

Any ideas? Thank you!

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I’ve done it like this before, which seems to work: Way: 434318202 | OpenStreetMap

For interests sake, they actually look like: https://maps.app.goo.gl/cc2eLHuMmRgnK4gB6 (As always G image for illustration only!)

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I’ve just drawn areas and tagged them with boundary=protected_area, as you’ve suggested. I couldn’t be bothered to figure out the protect_class tagging though, to be perfectly honest…

E.g.: Way: 881143340 | OpenStreetMap

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Thanks! I think I’ll go with that with protect_class=14 until informed otherwise – it seems to apply best here IMO.

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Tagging this sort of thing as boundary=protected_area and/or leisure=nature_reserve seems questionable to me. These tags are typically used for a whole named park or parcel of conserved land. These regeneration areas are within parks, but each one isn’t a standalone park. Each regeneration zone hasn’t been designated for long term protection in perpetuity, there’s just a fence to prevent people from carelessly walking over the plants and deer from over browsing. When the regeneration is complete, the fencing may be taken down. I think regeneration zones deserves their own separate tag.