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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by strainer on Sunday April 21, 2019 @01:29PM (#19713283)
Most often its grazing livestock, they like to eat seedlings.
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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by chrisco255 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @07:43PM (#19715268)
It's pretty easy to mitigate this on a farm by roping or fencing off a patch of seedlings.
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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by ToBeBannedSoon on Sunday April 21, 2019 @02:06PM (#19713527)
Livestock actually enriches the soil by their poop.
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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by Retra on Sunday April 21, 2019 @04:57PM (#19714530)
Livestock eat to extract nutrients. Their waste is not more nutrient rich than the stuff they eat. That would be impossible.
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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by chrisco255 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @07:41PM (#19715259)
Manure is fertilizer.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/manures/cow-manu...

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