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Re:Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fi... by krisoft on Saturday May 07, 2022 @03:55PM (#31297975)
> Spreading seeds from the air you're basically spreading bird food.

Aerial seeding is an established practice with quite a history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_seeding

https://www.deseret.com/2000/10/28/19536330/forest-service-i...

To quote: "Using a helicopter to broadcast native plant seeds, conservation officials of Wasatch-Cache National Forest have begun to rehabilitate parts of the Stansbury Mountains burned in last summer's wildfires."

This is an article from 2000.

It is very widely used to re-seed remote locations which would be hard or hazardous to approach on foot.

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Re:Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fi... by dymk on Saturday May 07, 2022 @04:27PM (#31298248)
It doesn’t work for trees. Grasses, yes.
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Re:Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fi... by arcticfox on Saturday May 07, 2022 @08:37PM (#31300134)
Why doesn't it work for trees? I can't stop trees from growing in my yard from seeds blowing in, I genuinely don't understand why just spreading seeds aerially isn't effective
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Re:Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fi... by dymk on Saturday May 07, 2022 @08:57PM (#31300244)
Partly, it's a matter of volume. You're getting more wayward seeds spread on your lawn by a couple orders of magnitude, than what a drones will be sprinkling in coconut coir pucks or compacted dirt balls.
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