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ACCORDING to a Mail Report from Science Service (Washington, D.C.), Mexico is undertaking a reafforestation programme. It is stated that the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture is now putting into force a programme of reafforestation of areas that have been denuded since the Spanish Conquest, which turned many parts of Mexico into semi-arid regions. “Local detachments of soldiers all over the country have been ordered to co-operate with government agricultural agents in their reforestation work. During the last five years new trees have been planted on many of the naked slopes of the Valley of Mexico, which was a richly wooded zone when the white men came. Charcoal, the great fuel of modern Mexico, has been made at the expense of the forests, and the first wood-burning railroads and timber-cutters of mines destroyed forests in many regions. Modern regulations require miners to get permission to cut timber, and to plant new trees for every old one cut.”
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Re-Afforestation in Mexico. Nature 132, 890–891 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132890d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132890d0