Reforesting with balls of charcoal embedded with seeds

[Xist]

I don't know how related this is to seed balls or Team Trees, but yay! More trees!

According to Fedoranko, just two operators could send out a mini-fleet of seed missile planting drones that could plant 400,000 trees a day -- a number that quite possibly could make massive headway in combating the effects of manmade climate change.

The drones were designed by an ex-NASA engineer. And with a pressing need to reseed an area in Myanmar equal to the size of Rhode Island, the challenge is massive but suddenly within reach. Bremley Lyngdoh, founder and CEO of World Impact, says reseeding that area could theoretically house as many as 1 billion new trees.

"Obviously, planting a billion trees will take a long time without the help of drones," Lyngdoh told Fast Company.

But they've now got a powerful new ally in their corner. For context, it took the Worldview Foundation 7 years to plant 6 million trees in Myanmar. Now, with the help of the drones, they hope to plant another 4 million before the end of 2019.

What part of this was updated from 2019? Just the title?

https://www.upworthy.com/drones-fire...20-inches-tall

[Isaac Zachary]

In Colorado we're having lots of tree problems. Basically it's a lot of things. For one, places where trees were clear cut were latter sown with too many seeds. The trees grew to close together and compete too much for water and nutrients as a result. This, as well as the growing drought that the local paper is saying has become the worst since 800 BC has lead to a masive pine beetle infestation that has killed entire forests. According to the local paper, the "worse case scenario" of draught just keeps getting worse. If the trees were healthier they would be more "immune" to the pine beetles, but in their current dehydrated, weakened state they are easy game for them. And as a result of so many dead and dry forests we now have more and more forest fires every year.

[freebeard]

I installed the positive pressure MERV-11 air filtration system for Corona-chan, but it has proven most helpful during fire season.

I don't know how related this is to seed balls or Team Trees, but yay! More trees!

Temporally related, perhaps? Those 20" trees are what Hoedads planted by hand, scrambling up and down slopes. They used to come home with their jeans ripped to shreds.

They are scattering seeds at random. A proper drone would have 20" tall seedlings to start, and use robotic vision to assess the lay of the land and place each one in it's own little ballistic crater.

And a companion drone that has a pile driver that can punch unwanted vegetation into the ground to turn it into mulch.


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[oil pan 4]

Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary

In Colorado we're having lots of tree problems. Basically it's a lot of things. For one, places where trees were clear cut were latter sown with too many seeds. The trees grew to close together and compete too much for water and nutrients as a result. This, as well as the growing drought that the local paper is saying has become the worst since 800 BC has lead to a masive pine beetle infestation that has killed entire forests. According to the local paper, the "worse case scenario" of draught just keeps getting worse. If the trees were healthier they would be more "immune" to the pine beetles, but in their current dehydrated, weakened state they are easy game for them. And as a result of so many dead and dry forests we now have more and more forest fires every year.

I have this problem now. But the reforestation is natural. No pine beetles, but some kind of boring bug that gets into my fuel trees.

[freebeard]

There has to be a vulnerability in their life cycle. They have to come out of the hole sometime.

Anti-bug drones with nets or boxing glove on a scissor arm.

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[Piotrsko]

Endangered woodpeckers. Whole flocks of them bred in captivity.

[freebeard]

They can hide, but they can't run.

Drones that inject liquid Nitrogen into the holes?

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by Xist

Just getting financial advice from reddit.com/r/funny again and someone shared an infotainmental gif of an invention call "Seedballs," a boring and inedible version of fruit that you throw at the ground and sprouts when it rains. They say they cost 2¢

Someone commented that somebody named Fukuoka invented this and the Wikipedia page mentions him, but the page seems to be in Japanese for some reason, and I have not gotten around to learning that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_ball

This is something similar, but colorful balls of wildflower seeds. https://growtherainbow.com/

The reddit post stated they were rolled in charcoal, but I keep reading about them being in red clay. There were many reddit comments about killing trees to make the charcoal.

It's a worthwhile read:
' One Straw Revolution,' Masanobu Fukuoka.( lots of context )

[aerohead]

If you saw 'One Year To Save The World', with Greta Thunberg, you'll remember that it takes a newly planted tree, 15-years before it actually begins to sequester carbon.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by Xist

There was a huge fire about half an hour from here sixteen years ago. Grass and stuff has grown back, but zero trees. Maybe I could fill a ruck sack with pine seeds, poke a hole in the bottom, and walk from one end to the other until my bag is empty, and some trees will grow, but this would probably benefit squirrels much more, while the seed balls contain pepper and other ingredients to repel pests.

Why can't I save the world with a hundred billion seed balls and some modified paintball guns?

Just kidding, that would cost $2 Billion!

Where I live, many thousands of acorns come down each year.
Feral hogs bull-doze most of them. What manage to sprout are often browsed right down to the ground by squirrels, killing most.
After that, heat, drought, and hard freezes dispatch some of the few remaining.
Neighbors up the road brought in large animals as a tax-dodge. Some of the trees have had all their bark rubbed off already. Cambium's all gone. Dead. Just like some places in Africa, but without the travel costs.