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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
afforestation
noun
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▪ Both forest management and afforestation are responsible for direct and indirect environmental change.
▪ Most have long since gone, leaving behind their legacy of sunless, blanket afforestation.
▪ No distinction is made between losses due to agriculture and afforestation.
▪ Not all silvicultural practices are as extreme and the character of the ground flora will also depend on the land-use prior to afforestation.
▪ So on balance, it looks as though I will be doing the replanting and afforestation for Fairfax.
▪ Some of the changes are the result of afforestation and reservoir construction so that not every change is attributable to agricultural development.
▪ Water yield as well as water quality is affected by afforestation and reforestation.
▪ Will he tell us whether it is intended to give help for water projects, sanitation or afforestation?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Afforestation

Afforestation \Af*for`es*ta"tion\, n. The act of converting into forest or woodland.
--Blackstone.

Wiktionary
afforestation

n. The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.

WordNet
afforestation

n. the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)

Wikipedia
Afforestation

Afforestation is the establishment of a forest or stand of trees in an area where there was no previous tree cover. Reforestation is the reestablishment of forest cover, either naturally (by natural seeding, coppice, or root suckers) or artificially (by direct seeding or planting).

Forestation is the establishment of forest growth on areas that either had forest or lacked it. Reforestation and afforestation are categories of forestation. Many governments and non-governmental organizations directly engage in programs of afforestation to create forests, increase carbon capture and sequestration, and help to anthropogenically improve biodiversity. (In the UK, afforestation may mean converting the legal status of some land to " royal forest".) Special tools, e.g. tree planting bar, are used to make planting of trees easier and faster.

Usage examples of "afforestation".

William Swayne, known to the whole valley as Willie the Twig by reason of his solitary lordship of some ten square miles of new and old afforestation along the border, found nothing interesting in gatherings for social chit-chat, and preferred his deer and his setters to more garrulous company.

There ought to be in permanent existence certain recognised industries of a useful, but uncompetitive character, like, we will say, afforestation, managed by public departments, and capable of being expanded or contracted according to the needs of the labour market, just as easily as you can pull out the stops or work the pedals of an organ.