Iceland's attempts to replant its forests

Re:Iceland's attempts to replant its forests by twothamendment on Friday October 20, 2017 @05:50PM (#15519352)

Deer can be quite the issue. There are a handful of cities in Utah (and I'm sure other places) who have opened up hunting to archers - within the city limits because the deer population is out of control.

Back to the tree side of the story - I'm in NW Montana where trees are like weeds. In the spring I could find 1-2 fir tree seedlings per square inch and sometimes 4-5 in an inch! Despite having quite a few deer, forests are thick. I should rent some sheep to keep down the "weeds" we call trees.

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Re:Iceland's attempts to replant its forests by mljoe on Friday October 20, 2017 @06:23PM (#15519506)

I always felt it was kinda unreal that a tiny plant barely larger then the surrounding grass can become a huge tree given enough time of poor lawn maintenance. It doesn't even seem to take very long until tree saplings gain the ability to do some damage to your lawn mower.

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