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Hmm, I wasn't under the impression that there was large areas of land in need of tree-planting. I though most de-forestation was to free the land for agricultur
by mseebach 16y ago
Hmm, I wasn't under the impression that there was large areas of land in need of tree-planting. I though most de-forestation was to free the land for agriculture (in which case you'd probably need to mix the trees with land mines if they are to have any chance of actually growing)..
- mediaman 16y agoThe other cause of deforestation is for paper and lumber. It uses a lot of trees. Visit Washington or Oregon sometime and drive through the mountains; the earth looks scarred.
- shin_lao 16y agoI'm not sure this is correct, I think for the industry to work they have to replant trees.
- mediaman 16y agoThey don't own the land, the federal government does, and leases it out to them to log. They don't have an incentive to replant. Having said that, they do replant, but generally replace old-growth forest with faster-growing, weaker monoculture pines that take less time to mature, so they can be harvested again.
- dmm 16y agoA bunch of trees is not necessarily a forest.
- mseebach 16y agoWell, "tree-bombing" won't help much with that.