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NALT Full

Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment
natural resource management
land management
land restoration

Preferred term

land restoration

Type

Topic

Definition

The reestablishment and development of a plant cover. This may take place naturally through the reproductive processes of the existing flora or artificially through the direct action of man - e.g., afforestation, range reseeding.
Source: Schwarz, Charles F.; Thor, Edward C.; Elsner, Gary H. 1976. Wildland planning glossary. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-13. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station
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Synonyms

land reclamation
land rehabilitation
land revegetation
revegetation

In other languages

restauración de tierras

Spanish

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/35688

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