If its in already disturbed land it wouldnt be hard at all

I suppose you could plant whatever you want but I was thinking it'd probably be better to avoid a huge monoculture of the world's trees.

You dont need to dig that deep for saplings?

And most trees are planted as saplings btw

I suppose not. But idk how many trees you can plant as saplings.

Oh well

Lots

That answers that question

Basically every tree

Yeah you're overthinking it 😆

I talked to some guys who had done a lot of tree planting and they always talked about it like it was the hardest job they'll ever have.

So they described doing all of this hard labor and digging holes with spades in the Canadian wilderness up in north Manitoba or north Alberta where the bugs just fuckin eat you alive at all times for low, if any pay.

They had to dig manually?

Yeah

Digging with a shovel is hard work

And then they didn't get their commission if they didn't get deep enough because it fucks up the tree.

So if you fuck up you gotta go back and fix it

You dont need to dig with a shovel though, you could use an auger :P

Yeah but in "commercial" tree planting you generally get a shitload of volunteers/uni students to do it for dirt cheap.

They usually do it to pad their resumes and whatnot.

like 100 people in tree planting camps.

I actually need to get one since I've been digging holes all this season and it is back breaking

And you cant get them all augurs

Seems like the company's are just cheap

Pretty much

>cut down forests all around
>plant new ones
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But not much money to be made in tree planting until you can harvest them for lumber or whatever you want them for.

You could employ much less people + more augers and get the same amount of work done.

That's actually what happens here Kisaragi.

We are so dependent on lumber in Canada that we actually do this already.

Lol

Irving in New Brunswick is famous for their massive tree replanting efforts.

They do that in Michigan too

They do that all around the place

What are wood alternatives? Are we that dependant on it?

People should've just had plots set aside for lumber to begin with

Well the alternative to wood in a lot of cases is plastic.

Why not steel?

Which I'd say is probably even worse for the environment.

🤔

Well think about it. How many products that used to be made of wood are made of plastic now?