A forest will produce money forever.

So you would have the other community pay all the money the others could have ever made for all time?

Money can rebuild a forest

No. It can not.

If you think that then you really are ignorant.

A maple first can not be turned into a pine forest no matter how much you have spent.

And a maple Forest can not be brought back no matter how much you spend

It's been tried.

It was tried for years, tens of millions were spent.

And it was never done.

It failed every time.

It takes hundreds of years to grow a forest.

And only weeks, or days to destroy.

So you would have a community pay hundreds of years worth of lost revenue?

Or would it just be an oppsie doodles?

Now, don't get me wrong. I too believe that municipalities should have better autonomy.

The ability to circumvent a state/provincial government to a point.

And extend itself to the Federal.

Okay, so I don't know enough about that specific scenario to respond to it directly. However, I am curious as to who was attempting to rebuild the forest?

It was done rich entrepreneur, he cut a maple Forest to try and rebuild it as a pine.

As soon as the pines started to grow, the maples would take priority, and when the pines died the maples for sun scorch.

My BF studied it in school because he is a forest technician.

"and when the pines died the maples for sun scorch" what does that mean?

Maples can not be in the sun.

They die. They get scorched.

Oh ok

Yeah, money can't fix everything.

That is not a good mind set to have..

Was it money really that failed? Or poor planning and decision making?

It was money.

They tried for years.

No amount direct ever changed the results.

well if they realised the maples would overtake the pine, maybe they couldve done something

Money alone isn't enough to fix a problem

I also thought it would be possible to change it.

But after reading and looking at forests I eventually realized.

humans are amaing at wiping out species on accident

so just accidentally wipe out the maples

and boom

pines

No.

money can build a park

not an ecosystem tho

"a park"

kinda can...

money if it has enough worth, can do anything

By the way this wasnt just planting pines over the maples

however things we cant do usually have a worth well over the amount of money we have

forest technician sounds interesting

@Summī Imperator, 呪い殿 that explains it

This guy stripped the land to the rock.

And replaced the soil.

You see plants repopulate...

And the maples still took priority

why were they replacing in the first place?

Because pines grow to maturity in a decade or two.

And then you can sell them

Maples take 40+

oh so it was for commercial purposes?

Yes.

For building materials.

Sounds like he wasn't just trying to build a forest

He was trying to build a forest to his specifications

He was trying to change a forest.

From hardwoods to soft woods.

building a forest is easy

controlling a natrual forest without wiping it out and starting from scratch is not

It's not too hard to make a hardwood forest.

Unless the soil is acidic

But it won't be profitable for a long time.

Okay, but I don't care about that. I was interested in whether you can rebuild a forest with enough money. Your example does not contradict that.

^ yeah

Maybe if you had billions

you obviously can build a forest with money

You could remake a forest.

but its hard to replace a forest completely

But it wouldn't be worth it and nature would do it in the same amount of time.

what purpose is rebuilding if it doesn't profit from the entrepreneur's perspective?

Yeah, it won't ever truly be the same

You could plant whatever trees you want, but ultimately it won't matter compared to what nature will do.

As described by the example above.

You could change everything and still nature will do as it will.

No guarantee nature will do it on its own. If you want to rebuild a forest might as well do it yourself

at this rate, the only trees left will be fruit and commercial ones

It just isn't feasible.

"humans be wiping species mega fastz"

-some black dude

The money needed would be enormous.

doing it yourself is still setting up conditions for nature to do its thing

^

It's just that chances are that it won't stay what you want for long without a ridiculous amount of maintenance.

I don't care about a planned and maintained forest, the topic is conservation.

if you're going to put money into conserving it, you would want results right?

how can we purge mankind without destroying eath?

Lol

thats what i call results

Herd everyone into the ghetto and release a super virus.

that could kill nature aswell

Ban vaccines.

That would be easier.