Word: replant
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...does sustainable development mean in the Amazon? The big polluters are hiding behind these two words." In fact, a wood-pulp producer in the Amazonian state of Para has described as "sustainable development" a plan to clear-cut 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) of virgin tropical forest and replant the area with eucalyptus trees...
...conventional techniques, known as split thickness skin grafting, doctors replant both the epidermis and the underlying layers of skin with skin from another part of the body...
Making wine may not be as American as cherry pie, but the tradition is a lot older than the Constitution. French Huguenot settlers fermented juice from Florida's native muscadine grapes as early as 1565. In the 1780s, Thomas Jefferson scoured France for cuttings to replant at Monticello, his Virginia estate. (None took root, alas.) And Count Agoston Haraszthy, the patriarch of California vintners, started his first U.S. vineyard at what is now the Wollersheim winery in Prairie du Sac, Wis., in 1847. During the 19th century, wines from Ohio and Missouri won gold medals in European competitions, but thousands...
Forest transplant. On Canada's Vancouver Island, Boy Scouts and others will remove trees from an old forest that is about to be cut down and replant them 3.2 km (2 miles) away in an area that has already been cleared of vegetation...