"Reforestation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... converting a bare or agricultural space by planting trees and plants; reforestation involves replanting trees on areas that have been cut or ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States
... positive denial of the value of reforestation as a preventive of floods, it is claimed by many authorities that much of the destruction is due to the fact that the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois have been almost denuded of such forests as originally ...
— The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado • Logan Marshall
... "why don't you divert more of your economy to public works, better roads, reforestation, dams—that ...
— Summit • Dallas McCord Reynolds
... resources of the country and to transform its present poverty into prosperity, Italy has already inaugurated an extensive scheme of public works, which includes the reclamation of the marshes, the reforestation of the mountains, the reconstruction of the highways, the improvement of the ports, and the construction of a railway straight across Albania, from the coast at Durazzo to Monastir, in Serbian Macedonia, where it ...
— The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the AEgean • Edward Alexander Powell
... families of trees in the forest that have outstanding traits. Those traits in growth might be dwarfs or they may be giants; they may have short lives or long lives, like different varieties of apples. The fruit or seeds may be large or small. I believe as reforestation progresses there will be certain trees located which have value as seed trees and which will improve the forest equal to the improvement in livestock on the farms today. The razor back hog that roamed the forest is gone and has been replaced by animals much ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting - Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 • Various |
