Land use refers to how humans employ the land.
Restoration attempts to change it back.
In southeastern Michigan, settlement and transformation of the landscape took place between about 1830 and 1890, or thereabout. In the neotropics, we hear much about recent, dramatic deforestation in places such as the Amazon Basin . In fact, indigenous peoples cleared and over-worked the land about 1,000 years ago. The collapse of the Maya is attributed partly to this cause. Spanish colonization began transforming the land after about 1500, and has long been complete in more hospitable, seasonal forested areas.