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I just worry if there are valuable trees on a piece of land. It would be unfortunate for someone to own, say, 10 acres of land with redwoods on them. If the woo
by xeromal 3y ago
I just worry if there are valuable trees on a piece of land. It would be unfortunate for someone to own, say, 10 acres of land with redwoods on them. If the wood is valued at a ton of money, that would encourage them to chop it down.
- acdha 3y agoYes - I think any such system should at least be restricted to urban areas (I’m not sure I’ve seen it proposed otherwise) and you’d need some careful work to have credits for functional ecosystems without having people try to scam it by claiming that the koi pond & tree on their mini golf course makes it a wildlife habit after a duck is spotted there.
- ufocia 3y agoI'm not sure why a tree would not be considered a functional ecosystem. Perhaps giving incentives to people growing even individual trees is the thing to do. Otherwise people without trees are just freeloading of someone else's property.
- acdha 3y agoThat’s why I said care. A tree as part of a larger garden in an area where insects and animals can reach it probably is good, but a palm tree in a sterile concrete swimming pool zone is unlikely to help and putting in a ton of invasive plants could actually be a problem. Ideally the incentives could be set based on support for native flora and fauna to discourage attempts to game it. If it’s linked to a tax cut, you’ll see every possible bad faith interpretation tried at least once.