Verb (used with object) : Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.    From Dictionary.com. 

I knew from guide-books that there were thousands of acres of woodland still, though much had been "deforested"; but I didn't know it hid many beautiful villages, and even towns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Set in Silver] Reference

Flooding on those deforested hills caused by the storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2004] Reference

The entire area around La Paya National Park is deforested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Napo moist forests] Reference

And the mountainous countryside has been heavily deforested.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2010] Reference

And on the other side, you see hilly, deforested North Korea.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2009] Reference

Your previous guest told you that Haiti is largely deforested.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2010] Reference

Rotuma has been entirely deforested and supports secondary vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fiji tropical moist forests] Reference

Of course the deforested country could for a time resort to importing logs.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 3] Reference

  He says that newly deforested land was tremendously fertile and productive.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Repeats Itself with Rising Food Prices] Reference

It has the additional advantage that it thrives in deforested and altered habitats.    From Wordnik.com.  [33 Green Iguana] Reference

The dark areas are forest, the white is deforested areas, and the gray is re-growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land-use and land-cover change] Reference

Unfortunately, Mindoro is one of the most severely deforested islands in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mindoro rain forests] Reference

It was the deforested hillsides, for example, that experienced the deadliest mudslides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President To Legislative Assembly] Reference

Some areas such as the National Park, were also almost deforested between 1860 and 1900.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden] Reference

This is in contrast to the largely deforested lowlands of Mindanao and the Eastern Visayas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mindanao montane rain forests] Reference

Populations resettled in recently deforested areas suffer the double risks of the forest fringe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

And on the other side you see hilly deforested North Korea and it's -- you know what's happening there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2009] Reference

Nevertheless, there is considerable degraded, deforested habitat, particularly where cattle are grazed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monte Alegre varzea] Reference

Haiti is a poor, tragically deforested nation, but it is rich in history, human potential, and human spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Many Hands Lighten the Load’] Reference

In the image, deforested Haiti is to the left, while the Dominican Republic is the greener area to the right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 7] Reference

Elevation is probably a little bit higher, and he was in a deforested area that was burnt out by a forest fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2005] Reference

Each exit on the I-18 took me farther into the isolation of brown mountains, deforested by five years of drought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]

And the surrounding areas, and one of the reasons they're not so green is because -- well, they've been deforested.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2010] Reference

These activities and their associated pressures especially affected the heavily deforested upper Yangtse watershed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, China] Reference

It pioneers the natural revegetation of deforested grassland, volcanic ash and sand, gravelly stream beds, and screes.    From Wordnik.com.  [6. Best-Known Species] Reference

The Park is an island of wilderness in the wide Paraná river valley, much of which has been deforested for agriculture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iguacu National Park, Brazil] Reference

I saw chronically desperate Cambodia, and tortured Burma, and deforested Thailand, with the eyes of one who had seen Haiti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethan Casey: What Does Pakistan Have to Do With Haiti?] Reference

The mountains have been deforested in recent centuries, and today this process continues on the more remote mountain ridges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests] Reference

In parts of Nepal, hikers and campers have cut down so many trees for Himalayan campfires that the area is becoming deforested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trouble In Paradise] Reference

Bohol is heavily deforested, and almost all of the island's natural forest is to be found in Rajah Sikatuna National Park (RSNP).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mindanao-Eastern Visayas rain forests] Reference

Such owners have more or less land deforested by fire or their own milling operations, and will incline to sell only stumpage without land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods] Reference

Lowlands areas of Macanao, especially those around stational streams, have been intensively deforested and destroyed for sand exploitation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Araya and Paria xeric scrub] Reference

And beyond these lush hills loom the gray, deforested slopes that Jacques Cousteau, nearly 500 years after Columbus, declared "beyond salvation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [First Person Global] Reference

If we deforest these steep slopes, water is going to injure them much more than it would the gentler slopes of the lower lands, if they had been deforested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

In the typical fir districts of Oregon and Washington deforested land which escapes recurring fire is usually restocked naturally and with astonishing rapidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods] Reference

Our deforested areas are great and growing, but of even more peculiar significance is our unparalleled opportunity for making them quickly profitable to the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods] Reference

STRIEKER: Among the findings, in only 50 years, Indonesia has lost almost half its forests, mostly by illegal logging, an area the size of Massachusetts deforested each year.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2002] Reference