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Where do you get 350 million trees or even 350 million seedlings?

In the United States, the Forestry Service provides them. Only commercially useful varieties, but they sell seedlings in units of 1,000 quantity. A thousand isn't that big. I can easily pick up the bundle. Large companies buy tens and hundreds of thousands each year.

In the U.S., some states also sell seedlings and in quantities less than 1000. A few examples (with prices):

New York: https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/75799.html

Virginia: http://dof.virginia.gov/infopubs/Seedling-Price-Guide_2018-2...

Washington: https://www.dnr.wa.gov/programs-and-services/forest-resource...

My county gives away trees to anyone willing to plant them in their yard. They are not seedlings either, but probably a year or older.

Which country?

DDG "county tree give-away" shows lots of links:

Henrico County, VA: https://henrico.us/services/tree-seedling-giveaway/

Arlington County, VA: https://environment.arlingtonva.us/register-for-your-free-tr...

State of Mississippi: https://www.mfc.ms.gov/mississippi-arbor-day-tree-giveaways-...

DeSoto County, CA: http://www.desotoswcd.com/annual-public-tree-giveaway.html

and so on...

Correction: DeSoto County is in MS.

Sorry, but you misread. County, not countRy. I'm in the US, but I'd rather not reveal my location to that level of detail.

That's fair, I did misread and that does make a big difference in anonymity.

Any idea how much that costs?

EDIT - The sibling comment has links to listed prices.

That's amazing and I hope it's true. I have friends who as students worked summers in BC, Canada planting seedlings after the loggers were finished with a cut. I'm sure they and these logging companies would be interested on how 350 Million trees are planted in 12 hours.

Here is how Ethiopia came to that number.

From the article:

> Various international organizations and businesses have joined the tree planting spree along with members of the public. It is not yet clear if Guinness World Records is monitoring Ethiopia's mass planting scheme.

However, the prime minister's office said specially developed software is helping with the count.

If it's a real forest loggers need not do anything, small trees and seedlings are probably plenty in that area.

They have been hiring tree planters for decades in Canada so clearly there’s a reason they do it, not as easy as letting it grow.

a "proper" clear cut leaves nothing. They take everything and kill all they can. When they are done they turn the land over leaving a thoroughly savage landscape behind. It is soul crushing to see such brutality. I truly hope we will make such crime against life a punishable offence comparable to mass murder.

Google the images or go look at some sites of such carnage.

Tree farms are no different than other farms in that respect, except for much longer harvest cycles. A corn field is a mono-culture with very little animal life, but most people don't have a problem with them.

Clear-cutting old-growth forests—yes, that's terrible and should never happen. But clear-cutting forests that were planted specifically to be harvested? That's fine, good even.

I'm appalled by this attitude. Monoculture plantations are the very reason we are losing biodiversity at a rate that is going to collapse the food chain we depend upon. Animals and plants do not know boundaries, they try their damned hardest to live and repair the network of organisms we are tearing apart.

In the time it takes a forest to grow it will be home to many species which we utterly fuck up when harvesting the forest, once again putting one more nail in the coffin of our own food supply.

The forest tending of Scandinavia is a good example. The "plantations" are not entirely monoculture and can never be in fact. Healthy forests are anything but only trees, there are so many other species required for a healthy forest.

Please read this for more information about the devastation we cause for some lumber: https://earthroots.org/index.php/clearcutting-item

> However, the prime minister's office said specially developed software is helping with the count.

So probably a bit of BS involved, still cool.

Or the water. I remember researching reforestation and the first 10 years are tough and water is one huge challenge.

one single tree can produce about 10K seedlings in 1 year

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