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Definition of Deforesting
1. deforest [v] - See also: deforest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deforesting
Literary usage of Deforesting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aspects of the Earth: A Popular Account of Some Familiar Geological Phenomena by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1900)
"Arboreal Ancestry of Man ; Need of Destroying the Forests ; Evil Effects of
Deforesting ; Relation of Forests to Soil ; Protective Effects. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"THE Deforesting OF MOUNTAINS. A NATIONAL congress of French geographical societies
was held last year at Lyons, and a report of its proceedings has been ..."
3. Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910)
"What have been the results from practical experience of deforesting that ...
But there is another result which has come from the deforesting first and then ..."
4. Reboisement in France: Or, Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the by John Croumbie Brown (1880)
"SIEE,—" The attention of your Majesty has been given at different times to the
dangers which result from the deforesting of the mountains. ..."
5. Report of the State Board of Geological Survey for the Year by Alfred C Lane, Michigan Geological Survey, Charles C Adams, Geological Survey, Michigan (1905)
"Deforesting THE LAND. The existence of forests in a region, while not affecting
the amount of water falling on the ground, tends to prevent its escape into ..."