Here’s what I’m going with for my “Final” render. Basically turned on AO in Cycles:
My initial Cycles render before I discovered the AO option:
And then the render in Eevee:
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Thanks 
I’ll give the weekly challenge a shot.
After some tweaking, I was able to get Eevee’s output to look much closer to my original Cycles render, also in 4K since Eevee actually can do that in a reasonable amount of time:
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Very complete project. Good lighting, fine composition, good colors, nice dense forest.
Great project to start with.