Word: reforest
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Buoyed by such successes, government agencies and environmental groups have begun to launch restoration projects of unprecedented scale. The Countryside Commission for England and Wales has pledged to reforest 390 sq km (150 sq. mi.) of the industrialized Midlands with 30 million trees. The state of Maine has announced its intention to restore salmon and sturgeon to the Kennebec River by acquiring and breaching a 154-year-old dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has drawn up plans to regenerate wetlands killed off by flood- control projects. And in partnership with the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Illinois...
Ronald Reagan once said trees were poisonous, but out of the Bush White House has come a new idea for recruiting the young to reforest America...