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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by peteradio on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @08:27AM (#20564168)
These are likely bareroot "whips" which makes planting a lot more automatable and successful, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfI_T7qG_Ok
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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by patpending on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:06AM (#20564430)
It's pretty quick to plant bare-root seedlings using a spade or "dibble". About 45 years ago another Boy Scout and I planted approximately 1,000 pine seedlings on a tree farm in a single day using a variant of the method shown in [1]. Once we got a rhythm going we planted around 3 trees per minute.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqa3yeLxhk

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