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n. - The restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting.

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  • Included in our reforestation has been a liberal scattering of black walnut.
  • Now that they've got trees with a shot at survival, volunteers have joined federal officials to begin reforestation.
  • The answer is in that word I used - "reforestation" implies and requires community cooperation and interaction, to build an infrastructure.
  • The media is undergoing a "reforestation" as it transitions from atoms
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