Re: High Tech Reforestation

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From: Adam Kippes
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 00:00

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In <1Nn3N5hYV5YxN4hyi2k8vL7wnfHc@4ax.com>, wayne.foley@freeuk.net wrote:

> He also hopes to replant large areas of the Black Forest cut down
> during the cold war to provide "line of sight" across the iron curtain
> between east and west Germany,

The Black Forest is nowhere near the [former] Iron Curtain; rather, it is
tucked away in the southwesternmost part of the country.

> In five years he believes that his company could be planting a billion
> trees a year - enough to reforest 3,000 square miles.

At that rate it would take 1,000 years to cover an area half the size of
the forty-eight states, which is but a fraction of the world's deforested
area; in fact it would take ten years just to cover little Scotland or
several centuries to recover the recently uncovered parts of the Amazon
basin.

It also works out to 520.83 trees per acre; a tad high even for a first
planting in extremely well-watered areas.

	-- AK

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From: Adam Kippes <adam.kippes@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: High Tech Reforestation
Date: 1999/10/04
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