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		mikeg8 on July 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ethiopia Plants 350M Trees in One Day to Combat Dr... Definitely a scattergun approach but that’s similar to how nature does it, I’ve heard the survival rate for seedlings in north American confirer forests to be about 1:1,000,000.

pbhjpbhj on July 30, 2019 [–]

Is that for natural or manual (eg from helicopter) scattering?

mikeg8 on July 30, 2019 | [–]

Natural. Each year a forest may produce hundreds of millions of seeds but only a few thousand saplings survive.

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