🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9yb4N8HH+yywLRJo3Zu2oVY1oheC@4ax.com>,
Adam Kippes  <adam.kippes@pobox.com> wrote:
>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.


I don't know, that puts them about 9 feet apart on a square grid.

Doesn't seem too close to me for a forest, especially a young 
growth forest.


Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.

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