r/Green • u/Vailhem • Nov 18 '24

Denmark will plant 1 billion trees and convert 10% of farmland into forest

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-forest-trees-fertilizer-e55416347fcc385a3ea8e2415726f908
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u/ramakrishnasurathu Nov 29 '24

One billion trees, a forest dream—Denmark's plan is more than it may seem!

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u/og_aota Nov 19 '24

Forest? Like dozens of different species of trees? 

Or plantation, like thousands of identical clones of the same species, planted in neat rows to make thinning and harvesting more efficient?

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u/CurrentMoodKitty Nov 24 '24

Exactly. Are they making tree farms?

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u/og_aota Nov 24 '24

That's the odds-on favorite for sure. A tree plantation goes from a barren field to a "forest" in 7-20 years depending on the species chosen for the monoculture and the volume of irrigation water given over to the task. Whereas an actual forest is the "end state" of an ecological succession process that on the conservative side takes @80-200 years to unfold.