I guess planting poisonous bushes to protect tree seedlings is out of the question?
Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
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Re: Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
Iceland and Greenland are both in Europe. Perhaps you meant mainland Europe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_Greenland_from_t...
Membership of the European Union is not what qualifies a country as European. If it was then Switzerland wouldn't be European, despite being near the centre of mainland Europe. Do you understand why the EU != Europe?
Re: Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because it isn't a problem with planting. That's very easy, and people volunteer to do it. When I was a kid (I'm Icelandic) we'd go on field trips and plant hundreds. The problem is keeping the growth alive.
You sound like you doubt the viability of automated and distributed tree planting which may be more statistically significant? I get your point that hundreds may not do, what about hundreds of thousands, then? Let's agree that we can't know as long as nobody tried. And you're right, we don't have the numbers on how the survivorship ratio in larger magnitudes would behave, it might just shrink to ridiculously small. B…
> You sound like you doubt the viability of automated and distributed tree planting which may be more statistically significant? I get your point that hundreds may not do, what about hundreds of thousands, then?
No, my point was that if the solution is increased numbers, it's already cheap and viable to get humans to do it rather than deploying expensive tech.
(By hundreds, I meant hundreds for each group of 3 school kids in one afternoon.)
> Let's agree that we can't know as long as nobody tried.
I don't even know that nobody tried. I'm sure the actual experts (as opposed to us armchair ones) thought of it.
Re: Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know what the case is in NE US, but in my town in British Columbia, the deer population is out of control in the metropolitan area, and every time a cull is mentioned, animal rights activists put a stop to it through loud and effective lobbying. It's quite irritating.
I suppose wolves wouldn't be popular in a suburban environment either.
No, but there's a few cougars. They're generally not allowed to stay in urban areas unless they can keep totally out of sight though.
Re: Iceland's attempts to replant its forests
#285What drives me crazy is how they make 3 million trees sound like a lot. I am a Forester and we typically plant over 600 trees per acre so 3 million is only about 5,000 acres. Which is not a particularly large forest. Hell I have 5 times that in a moderately size metropolitan area. A decent crew of 5 people can plant that in a few months. I'm sure their prices are extremely high but we pay less than 10 cents a seedlin…
> They are now grown as saplings at greenhouses in Iceland, because importing live trees is prohibited.
I wonder why they can't import live trees and if they could accelerate the process if they could.