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Planet's slowest, cheapest apology for the chainsaw.
means The deliberate replanting of trees on land that forest was cleared from, to rebuild what logging, fire, or farming took away.
from Built from Latin re- ('again') plus 'forest,' which itself traces through Old French 'forest' back to Medieval Latin 'forestis' — likely from 'foris,' meaning 'outside,' originally marking land outside the walls of a private hunting park, i.e. unenclosed woodland the king didn't personally claim. So reforestation literally means putting the 'outside land' back the way it was — an 18th/19th-century forestry coinage for undoing deforestation.
- wrong trees
- monoculture rows can harm biodiversity more than bare land
- carbon lag
- takes decades before new trees offset the old ones lost
- survival rate
- many planted seedlings die within years without upkeep
- natural regrowth
- often outperforms human planting if land is simply left alone