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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We absolutely can. Forestry does it all the time to grow timber. Forestry tends to be a less alive monocrop of good wood trees, but you could make a more diverse forest if you wanted. It’s done all the time to reforest areas.
The reality is profitability/utility. The Amazon for instance is being replaced by farms and other industrial activity. This is *popular policy* in parts of Brazil because it has boosted GDP significantly.
Likewise I’ve heard upset here in NZ when dairy farms are turned into timber forests due to job loses.
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