Word: reforestation
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...producer of timber products, Tacoma's Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Venturing out of Pacific Northwest, where it holds 2,600,000 acres of timberlands, Weyerhaeuser will take options from Mississippi Pulp & Paper Co. and other local owners on 90,000 acres of logged-off pinelands in Mississippi and Alabama, reforest the land, eventually build a major pulping plant near Columbus, Miss...
...taken on the P.M.A. as soon as he became governor in 1946, had licked them to a standstill ever since. He had outraged Grundymen by insisting that manufacturers purify or divert their wastes from the state's polluted rivers and streams, by forcing mine operators to reforest the huge scars made by strip mining, by establishing public recreation areas and raising unemployment insurance. He had tangled with Joe Grundy again at the 1948 convention when he refused to clamber aboard the Dewey bandwagon. Now both sides recognized that the struggle was at a crucial stage...
There are no jungles in Puerto Rico, unfortunately. The Federal Government has been spending thousands of dollars trying to reforest the island. One of the few virgin forests has been made a national reservation to preserve...
...column is not merely a tower of simple wisdom and reproof for lustful maidens, conscience-stricken wives: it is also a civic institution. Nancy's readers gave her $1,400 to reforest 560 acres of land in northern Michigan, gave more to replant them when the young trees were burned over. In 1932, when the Detroit Symphony was going under, Nancy's newspaper family sponsored six concerts, put the orchestra back on dry land...
...four successive Sundays. Some 10,000 readers turned out when Nancy Brown's Column presented the Art Institute with a painting called Street in Brooklyn last year. Column Folks have also contributed to the Detroit Old Newsboys' Charitable Goodfellow Fund, sponsored six Detroit Symphony concerts, helped to reforest northern Michigan, to build a "beerless beer garden" for youngsters...