Reforestation

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-023534",
  "term": "Reforestation",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Planting of forests on lands that have previously contained forests but that have been converted to some other use.\n\n2. Replanting of forests on lands that have recently been harvested.\n\n3. The natural or intentional restoration of a forest, woodland or stand of trees that had been lost due to fire, cutting or other method of deforestation.\n\n4. The establishment of a forest through artificial plantings or natural regeneration.\n\n5. Replanting of forests on lands that have recently been harvested or otherwise cleared of trees.\n\n6. Restocking an area with forest trees.\n\n7. Natural or intentional restoration of a forest, woodland or stand of trees that had been lost due to fire, cutting or other method of deforestation.",
  "subject": "Climate change",
  "references": [
    "Glossary of Climate Change Terms",
    "Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Greenhouse Emissions Glossary",
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary",
    "EPA Guidance for Federal Land Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Glossary at http://www.epa.gov/owow_keep/NPS/chesbay502/pdf/chesbay_glossary.pdf; Federal Land Management in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Glossary",
    "DOE Energy Information Administration Glossary",
    "USDA Agricultural Library Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/reforestation/"
}