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Supposing you have 20 square miles of land to raise a forest, what kind of trees would you prefer to plant?

Your land is suitable to grow whatever kind of tree you would like.

Posted - December 5, 2021
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  • 16839
    Various eucalypts, including but not limited to river red gums, Tasmanian blue, manna gums, ghost gums, scribbly gums and stringybarks.
      December 5, 2021 3:40 AM MST
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  • 13395
    That would look pretty good.
      December 5, 2021 4:20 AM MST
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  • 53528

     

      I don’t know enough about horticulture, plant biology or ecology to make an informed decision as to which trees would be best, especially in view of compatibility with the other flora and the fauna of the area, so I would have to defer to people more suited to determine it.
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      December 5, 2021 7:34 AM MST
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  • 13277
    Wooden ones that grow green leaves.
      December 5, 2021 8:00 AM MST
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  • 11161
    Alder trees. Alder trees are one of the best trees for converting carbon dioxide to oxygen. Alder trees are also one of the few trees that store oxygen in their root system - they release the oxygen slowly and it benefits the soil, the creatures that live in the soil and the ground water around the trees. Alder trees are also one of the few trees that produce the same  inferred signature as pot plants so if you plant pot plants around Alder trees the cops in helicopters looking for pot plants with inferred might assume that the signature they see is from the trees and not pot plants, Cheers! 
      December 5, 2021 8:43 AM MST
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  • 13395
    Thanks.. sounds like good expert advice.
      December 5, 2021 9:42 AM MST
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  • 44654
    I thought it was legal there.
      December 6, 2021 10:28 AM MST
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  • 11161
    Not the way that I do it. Cheers!
      December 6, 2021 11:15 AM MST
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  • 44654
    My son-in-law has twenty acres and is growing a parcel of it with the types of prairie plants that grew here in the past. He was given the seeds and paid by the state to do it. He is not allowed to do anything with it or harm any animals that choose to live there.
      December 6, 2021 11:30 AM MST
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  • 44654
    Whatever native trees grew here historically. Mainly hardwoods...oak, maple, cottonwood etc. This post was edited by Element 99 at December 5, 2021 9:42 AM MST
      December 5, 2021 9:03 AM MST
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  • 7795
    Oh boy!! You don't want to give me that kind of responsibility. Why do you ask? Because I will have no idea wtf I was doing. Like Big D said, "I don’t know enough about horticulture, plant biology, or ecology to make an informed decision as to which trees would be best."
      December 5, 2021 9:15 AM MST
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  • 44654
    Go to a nursery, ask them what would be a good tree to plant and buy it. Take it home, dig a hole, put the root bundle in the hole, fill in the hole, water it.
      December 6, 2021 11:27 AM MST
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  • 17620
    hardwoods
      December 5, 2021 12:10 PM MST
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  • 551
    Oak (subgenus Quercus) would be my first choice because I like their appearance and the aroma they generate when there are large numbers of them.

    But planting a 20 square mile area with one type of tree is a risky strategy because then they might all be wiped out by the same tree disease. It has been predicted that the ash could be wiped out in Europe through a two-pronged attack of Ash Dieback disease and Emerald Ash Borer:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35876621
      December 6, 2021 1:48 PM MST
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  • 13395
    Thanks.
      December 6, 2021 2:00 PM MST
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  • 3719
     Mixed decidous, both slow and relatively fast growing; including oaks, beech, elm and ash - but ones resistant to disease (e.g. Dutch Elm Disease, Ash Die-back Disease).
      December 10, 2021 1:59 PM MST
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