Crossword clues for reforestation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reforestation \Re`for*est*a"tion\, n replanting with trees; reconversion into a forest; the act of reforesting.
Wiktionary
n. The act or process of replanting a forest, especially after clear-cutting.
WordNet
n. the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting [syn: re-afforestation]
Wikipedia
Reforestation is the natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands that have been depleted, usually through deforestation. Reforestation can be used to rectify or improve the quality of human life by soaking up pollution and dust from the air, rebuild natural habitats and ecosystems, mitigate global warming since forests facilitate biosequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and harvest for resources, particularly timber, but also non-timber forest products.
The term reforestation is similar to afforestation, the process of restoring and recreating areas of woodlands or forests that may have existed long ago but were deforested or otherwise removed at some point in the past. Sometimes the term re-afforestation is used to distinguish between the original forest cover and the later re-growth of forest to an area. Forestation is the establishment of forest growth on areas that either had forest or lacked it. Special tools, e.g. tree planting bars, are used to make planting of trees easier and faster.
Usage examples of "reforestation".
The inhabitants erased the signs of Thread depredation and grew crops, planted orchards and thought of reforestation for the slopes denuded by Thread.
The inhabitants erased the signs of Thread depredation and grew crops, planted orchards, and thought of reforestation for the slopes denuded by Thread.
This feat, you see, this grand reforestation, would be a getting and a giving.
It turned out that the stone irrigation canals zigzagging up and down the valley, along with much of the greenery, were products of the Aga Khan’s irrigation and reforestation programs, which were regenerating the valley and making it self-sufficient without the help, or hindrance, of the Pakistani government.
Just as the day school on the Rishi Valley campus was the hub for this satellite school network, each satellite school was the hub for a village, where courses in adult literacy, land reclamation, reforestation, hygiene, beekeeping, etc.
Having been mined out, that level was now used as an arboretum to grow trees for reforestation projects around Sudbury.
The entire region had once been environmentally devastated from millennia of overwork but even before the latter Council period aggressive reforestation and environmental rebuilding had refreshed the landscape.
I'll spend three thousand years writing it, it'll be packed full of information on soil conservation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, astronomy, geology, Hsuan Tsung's travels, Chinese painting theory, reforestation, Oceanic ecology and food chains.