reforest's Usage Examples:

have become reforested with much the same trees, except that on the lower levels in the N.

The destruction of considerable portions of the forests by cattle, goats, insects, fire and cutting has been followed by reforesting, the planting of hitherto barren tracts, the passage of severe forest fire laws, and the establishment of forest reserves, of which the area in 1909 was 545,746 acres, of which 357,180 were government land.

The state is reforesting portions of its preserve chiefly with pine, spruce and larch.

reforesting private land area.

In 1900 about 21% of the state's area was cleared, and much besides had once been cleared, but not being suited to agriculture had become reforested.

In fact, the Moroccan government has formed cooperatives that offer good working conditions for the women who harvest the nuts as well as making an effort to reforest the trees.

' Under the revised constitution of 1908 the legislature is authorized to provide for the reforestation of state lands.

This is particularly important for reforesting private land area.

Increased attention is now being paid by both provincial and federal governments to preservation and to reforestation.

The original varieties of trees still abound, though in less numbers, on lands illadapted to agriculture, and in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, where the state has established forest preserves, and the Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner began reforesting in 1901, principally with pine, spruce and larch.

Finally, when reforestation is for a permanent land change, forests can remove and sequester carbon from the atmosphere.

Wangari Maathai founded the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya in the 1970s to reforest the land.

Synonyms:

forest, afforest,

Antonyms:

fauna,