Editing Reforestation (section)

== Purposes ==

=== Harvesting of wood ===
{{see also|Forestry|Forest management|Tree plantation}}
Reforestation is not only used for recovery of accidentally destroyed forests. In some countries, such as [[Finland]], many of the forests are ''managed'' by the wood products and [[pulp and paper industry]]. In such an arrangement, like other crops, trees are planted to replace those that have been cut. The Finnish Forest Act from 1996 obliges the forest to be replanted after [[felling]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.metsakeskus.fi/oikeudet-ja-velvollisuudet |title= Oikeudet ja velvollisuudet |publisher= Metsäkeskus (Forest Center) |language= fi |trans-title= Rights and responsibilities |access-date= 7 July 2020}}</ref> In such circumstances, the industry can cut the trees in a way to allow easier reforestation.{{Cn|date=November 2024}}

Reforestation, if several [[Native plant|indigenous species]] are used, can provide other benefits in addition to financial returns, including [[Soil regeneration|restoration of the soil]], rejuvenation of local flora and fauna, and the capturing and sequestering of 38 [[ton]]s of [[carbon dioxide]] per [[hectare]] per year.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Henkel|first=Marlon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s2HxCQAAQBAJ&q=Reforestation,+of+several+indigenous+species+are+used,+can+provide+other+benefits+in+addition+to+financial+returns,&pg=PA126|title=21st Century Homestead: Sustainable Agriculture III: Agricultural Practices|date=22 February 2015|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-1-312-93975-2|pages=126|language=en}}</ref>

=== Climate change mitigation ===

{{see also|Deforestation and climate change}}There are four primary ways in which reforestation and reducing [[deforestation]] can increase [[carbon sequestration]] and thus help with climate change mitigation. First, by increasing the volume of existing forest. Second, by increasing the carbon density of existing forests at a stand and landscape scale.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=Paul W. |last2=Jump |first2=Alistair S. |date=2023-03-21 |title=Edible fungi crops through mycoforestry, potential for carbon negative food production and mitigation of food and forestry conflicts |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=120 |issue=12 |pages=e2220079120 |bibcode=2023PNAS..12020079T |doi=10.1073/pnas.2220079120 |doi-access=free |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=10041105 |pmid=36913576}}</ref> Third, by expanding the use of forest products that will sustainably replace fossil-fuel emissions. Fourth, by reducing carbon emissions that are caused from deforestation and degradation.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Canadell JG, Raupach MR |year=2008 |title=Managing Forests for Climate Change |journal=Science |volume=320 |issue=5882 |pages=1456–7 |bibcode=2008Sci...320.1456C |citeseerx=10.1.1.573.5230 |doi=10.1126/science.1155458 |pmid=18556550 |s2cid=35218793}}</ref>
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=== Ecosystem restoration ===
[[File:Degraded land ready for forest restoration.jpg|alt=Site for forest restoration after degradation|thumb|Degraded land ready for restoration]]
Plantation forests are intensively managed, composed of one or two species, even-aged, planted with regular spacing, and established mainly for productive purposes. Other planted forests, which comprise 55 percent of all planted forests, are not intensively managed, and they may resemble natural forests at stand maturity. The purposes of other planted forests may include [[ecosystem restoration]] and the protection of soil and water values.<ref name="GFRA2020">{{cite web |title=Global Forest Resource Assessment 2020 |url=http://www.fao.org/forest-resources-assessment/2020/en/ |access-date=20 September 2020 |website=www.fao.org |language=en}}</ref>