Alien organisms pose a threat to the ecoregion, chiefly in the form of exotic timber trees of the genera Pinus and Eucalyptus, which have been used in afforesting montane grasslands. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Yet large sums are being expended in draining marshy tracts, regulating river-beds and afforesting bare spaces; and if you are interested in such works, you will do well to see what is going on at Metaponto at this moment. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)
And even now I hear my fellows speaking confidently of the re-afforesting of the Black ❋ 1817-1893 (1907)
It is not long since the first trees were planted in the great work of re-afforesting the Black Country. ❋ 1817-1893 (1907)
Forestry being a most important service, every branch of natural science connected with the preservation of forests, and afforesting is taught, the school collections forming a most interesting and wholly unique museum. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
The extensive eucalyptus plantations in Algeria, teach us the value of afforesting, vast tracks having been thereby rendered healthful and cultivable. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
Government had recently made for the re-afforesting of 18,000 acres; to effect which 400 cabins of poor people, living upon the waste, and destroying the wood and timber, were thrown down. ❋ Unknown (1846)
In addition, by voluntarily installing greenhouse gas abatement devices, 777,000 tons of carbon emission were reduced in total, which is an equivalent effect of afforesting 200 New York City's Central Parks.
The money would be reinvested in helping pay the costs of reaching the government target of afforesting 25\% of Scotland's land by 2050. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Kanari recommends afforesting the slope above the city to hold back the rock, at least somewhat.
A man who wore the old dress, and therefore who had almost certainly been in Erewhon, but had been many years away from it; who spoke the language well, but whose grammar was defective -- hence, again, one who had spent some time in Erewhon; who knew nothing of the afforesting law now long since enacted, for how else would he have dared to light a fire and be seen with quails in his possession; an adroit liar, who on gleaning information from the Professors had hazarded an excuse for immediately retracing his steps; a man, too, with blue eyes and light eyelashes. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
"Extracts from the Act for the afforesting of certain lands lying between the town of Sunchildston, formerly called Coldharbour, and the mountains which bound the kingdom of Erewhon, passed in the year ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
