Every season we have farmers plant fields. Sometimes 100’s of archers large. They have heavy machinery. And with just a handful of men. They are able to plow and seed these fields.
Why can’t the same skill set and machinery plant a forest? Say, in the midwest or on the out skirts of the Dust Bowl? Or in the ever eroding South American Rain Forest?
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There are automated tree planters but much of the world’s forested areas tend to be in fairly rough terrain: The areas that were nice and flat tend to have long ago been turned into farmland. The exception as mentioned is places like the amazon basin which were previously inhospitable and tough to convert to farms.
In rough terrain, they usually hand plant. A forester will have a backpack full of small seedlings basically rooted in test tubes or small paper tubes (they are not grown from seed, they are tissue cultured usually). That forester has a spike to punch a hole in the dirt, drops a seedling into it, steps on the side to press the dirt around the seedlings roots, and walks on. They usually count steps to the next place so that seedlings are spaced about evenly.
One gets planted every 15 to 30 seconds..and that makes for a long day of climbing in that rough terrain.
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