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My main problem with planting trees is - you're not planting seeds, but seedlings. These seedlings were already growing elsewhere, you just burned some fuel to
by ajuc 4y ago
My main problem with planting trees is - you're not planting seeds, but seedlings. These seedlings were already growing elsewhere, you just burned some fuel to transport them to another place.
Additionally at least in my region whenever I leave a plot of land unattended for a few years - tree appear on it. If you leave it for more than a decade it becomes a forest.
So - it seems the important part is assigning land for forests and not bothering the trees that will grow there. The tree-planting is optional.
- quixoticelixer- 4y agoThe amount of fuel used by transporting 10,000 seedlings is easily sequestered by just one of them growing.
- ajuc 4y agoBut it was growing already. The bottleneck is land allocated for trees, not the tree-planting procedure (in fact it's automatic once you have some trees in vicinity).
- quixoticelixer- 4y agoNo, you get trees for planting from a nursery, not from the wild. And tree planting is not "automatic"
- ajuc 4y agoAre you sure? A forest grew on my grandpa's field automatically about 15 years after he stopped using it (mostly as a cow pasture). Nobody planted anything, we just left it be. In 2008 this was a grass field, we made campfires there. Now it's a forest: https://goo.gl/maps/rSeprtz7orYAwVPY8 https://goo.gl/maps/rSeprtz7orYAwVPY8 In fact if you don't mow a lawn for a few months saplings start appearing :) Forests are perfectly good at spreading by themselves, they evolved for millions of years to do that. If you want more trees you just need to let them grow.