> Over the next 20 years, the U.S. aims to plant billions more trees in order to restore millions of acres of scorched forest and help offset planet-warming car

> Over the next 20 years, the U.S. aims to plant billions more trees in order to restore millions of acres of scorched forest and help offset planet-warming carbon emissions. In the West alone, some 10 million acres of recently burned land are waiting to be replanted. This sounds like a wrong goal at first glance. One of the root causes of the crazy wildfire season we've seen (along with drought) is overpopulation of trees. Lots and lots of fuel close together. From what I've learned Western forests are _supposed_ to be thin and patchy, these forests evolved with fire in it's environment - some trees seeds do not even germinate until after a fire occurs! [0] Unless a trained forester can correct me, from my perspective the best solution is to let regrowth happen naturally for best case long term sustainability. [0] https://www.nationalforests.org/our-forests/your-national-forests-magazine/how-trees-survive-and-thrive-after-a-fire https://www.nationalforests.org/our-forests/your-national-fo...