forestation
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of forestation
Example Sentences
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It also would ramp up research into wildfire mitigation technologies and change some forestation treatments.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2025
The side effects of large-scale forestation initiatives could reduce the CO2 removal benefits by up to a third, a pioneering study has found.
From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024
Here abundant rain, adequate forestation, and a host of wildlife provided conditions that could support ever- growing populations over long periods of time.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
That compares with 24% in neighbouring India and 14.5% in Bangladesh, and the previous government announced a mass forestation programme that envisaged planting 10 billion trees between 2019 and 2023.
From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2022
We have irrigation, dry farming, forestation of sandhills and the like; also conservation of soil fertility, and the conservation of lands.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
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