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> Spreading seeds from the air you're basically spreading bird food. Aerial seeding is an established practice with quite a history: https://en.wikipedia.org/
by krisoft 5y ago
> Spreading seeds from the air you're basically spreading bird food.
Aerial seeding is an established practice with quite a history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_seeding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_seeding
https://www.deseret.com/2000/10/28/19536330/forest-service-is-reseeding-wildfire-areas-by-helicopter https://www.deseret.com/2000/10/28/19536330/forest-service-i...
To quote: "Using a helicopter to broadcast native plant seeds, conservation officials of Wasatch-Cache National Forest have begun to rehabilitate parts of the Stansbury Mountains burned in last summer's wildfires."
This is an article from 2000.
It is very widely used to re-seed remote locations which would be hard or hazardous to approach on foot.
- dymk 5y agoIt doesn’t work for trees. Grasses, yes.
- arcticfox 5y agoWhy doesn't it work for trees? I can't stop trees from growing in my yard from seeds blowing in, I genuinely don't understand why just spreading seeds aerially isn't effective
- dymk 5y agoPartly, it's a matter of volume. You're getting more wayward seeds spread on your lawn by a couple orders of magnitude, than what a drones will be sprinkling in coconut coir pucks or compacted dirt balls.