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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by mikeg8 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @10:45AM (#20565250)
Definitely a scattergun approach but that’s similar to how nature does it, I’ve heard the survival rate for seedlings in north American confirer forests to be about 1:1,000,000.
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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @11:11AM (#20565529)
Is that for natural or manual (eg from helicopter) scattering?
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Re:Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Drought a... by mikeg8 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @01:50PM (#20567313)
Natural. Each year a forest may produce hundreds of millions of seeds but only a few thousand saplings survive.
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