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