Afforestation synonyms

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reforestation
The act or process of replanting a forest, especially after clear-cutting.
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overgrazing (related)
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bushveld
(South Africa) A terrain of thick scrubby trees and bush in dense thickets, with grassy groundcover between.
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forestry
Commercial tree farming.
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scrubland
A plant community characterized by scrub vegetation, consisting of low shrubs, mixed with grasses, herbs, and geophytes.
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shrubland
An area, such as chaparral, covered chiefly with shrubs and small trees.
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forestation (related)
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revegetation (related)
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reafforestation (related)
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over-grazing (related)
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re-vegetation (related)
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  • Alfalfa, stock raising and dairying, afforestation, " dry-farming " and irrigation are, however, proving that the West can maintain prosperity by not relying upon ordinary agriculture.

  • The tract derives its name from the extensive afforestation carried through in this region by William the Conqueror in 1079; and the deaths of two of his sons within its confines - Richard killed by a stag, and William Rufus by an arrow - were regarded in their generation as a judgment of Heaven for the cruelty and injustice perpetrated by their father when appropriating the forest.

  • The only known naturally mesotrophic loch in Tayside that has had no recent agricultural improvement or afforestation within its catchment.

  • Yet although the curve of burned lands parallels the curve of afforested lands, afforested lands, afforestation is only a minor part of the problem.

  • Evelyn put in a plea for afforestation, and besides producing a valuable work on arboriculture, he was able to assert in his preface to the king that he had really induced landowners to plant many millions of trees.

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