Editing Reforestation (section)

==== Germany ====
By the 14th century, forests in heavily populated areas had been devastated by industry, many of which required wood for their activities.<ref name="auto2">{{cite book |last1=Stubenrauch |first1=Jessica |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99184-5 |title=Forest Governance Overcoming Trade-Offs between Land-Use Pressures, Climate and Biodiversity Protection |last2=Ekardt |first2=Felix |last3=Hagemann |first3=Katharina |last4=Garske |first4=Beatrice |date=2022 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-99183-8 |location=Switzerland |page=63 |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-99184-5 |access-date=15 June 2022 |s2cid=248302731}}</ref> Peter Stromer (1310–1388), lord of the Stromer trading and commercial company, was spurred by this shortage to "conduct forest culture experiments".<ref name="auto2" /> In 1368 he successfully sowed fir and pine seeds in the Nuremberg Reichswald, which over time ended the wood shortage and established the "triumph of the pine in the Nuremberg Reichswald" (at the expense of other deciduous trees).<ref name="auto2" /> The "doctrine of coniferous sowing" spread widely through forestry regulations and other writing at the time.<ref name="auto2" />

Reforestation is required as part of the federal forest law. 31% of Germany is forested, according to the second forest inventory of 2001–2003. The size of the forest area in Germany increased between the first and the second forest inventory due to forestation of degenerated [[bog]]s and agricultural areas.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grußwort – Bundeswaldinventur |url=http://www.bundeswaldinventur.de |work=bundeswaldinventur.de}}</ref>