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> Areas that don’t quickly turn into forests are generally poorly suited to growing trees. For some value of "quick", you are correct. Fertile land will indeed
by krageon 7y ago
> Areas that don’t quickly turn into forests are generally poorly suited to growing trees.
For some value of "quick", you are correct. Fertile land will indeed eventually develop into some kind of forest absent factors that inhibit such development (such as grazing cattle). I do not agree with you about this process being quick, as it can easily take more than one human lifetime for this to happen.
- Retric 7y agoBy planting trees you can very much speed up this process, but it’s still going to take decades to get significant tree growth. Further, you can’t count 100% of those trees as net growth because the area would have gained a few trees in that same period. So, critically the impact of planting trees needs to be compared to an ever more forested area that would have occurred if similar measures where taken but zero trees planted. On top of that grasslands can store significant carbon in root systems which is then slowly released as the grasses are killed of by tree growth.