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reˈforest, v. Chiefly N. Amer.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To cover again with forest; = reafforest v. 2. Also absol.
1881Q. Rev. July 56 Large tracts of land are being re⁓forested. 1882Nature XXV. 527 Attention is called to the necessity of re-foresting. 1918Jrnl. Forestry XVI. 335 It has been assumed that 75 per cent of the State-owned land must be reforested artificially. 1939Geogr. Jrnl. XCIV. 178 The French have spent 317 million francs on reforesting over a million acres. 1969S. M. Jepsen Trees & Forests i. 27 During 1965, more acres..of national forest land were reforested by planting and seeding than in any previous year.
So reforeˈstation; reforestiˈzation (Ogilvie 1882); reˈforestize v. (Webster 1897).
1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 90 How different would it have been had there been some system of conservancy or re⁓forestation. 1918Jrnl. Forestry XVI. 889 It is absolutely essential to ameliorate the rivers, especially the Hun Ho, in the mountainous collecting basin, by reforestation. 1976T. Walker Spatsizi xi. 121 Natural re-forestation was well advanced in the burn with pines ten feet high. |