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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by WalterBright on Sunday April 21, 2019 @02:33PM (#19713693)
The great plains have little vegetation on them, and take well to having trees planted on them. The trees in Kansas, for example, were planted by early settlers to break the wind, and have thrived.

(The historical reason trees were absent from the great plains was periodic fire.)

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Re:Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emis... by tspike on Sunday April 21, 2019 @03:10PM (#19713918)
They were also once home to tallgrass prairie, now the most threatened biome on the planet.
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