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 study also found that when forestation is implemented alongside other strategies to tackle climate change, such as reducing fossil fuel emissions, the negative impacts of these indirect effects are lower.
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
But scientists warn that the plan may be an example of one of the worst kinds of forestation efforts: planting trees where they would not naturally occur.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
Its rapid growth, strong root-system, and its ability to thrive on poor sandy soil, have led to the employment of this species for the forestation of sand-dunes in France.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
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