2billion trees

[JP_]

There's a lot of money in trees - the forestry commission would probably be happy to plant on private land in a profit share scheme.

It was discussed on radio (no idea who was speaking) that we need to use more wood in construction too - our trees helped Britain conquer the world once!
More timber in homes would be greener than concrete and steel. All that timber in construction would be a carbon store, rather than need to burn fuel for steel construction.

2 billion should be doable. The only stats I can find at the moment:
"The area of woodland in the UK at 31 March 2019 is estimated to be 3.19 million hectares"
Based on 2000 trees per hectare, that's 6,380,000,000 trees. So only adding about 1/3 again.

A guy from NASA says he can plant 1 billion a year, with drones I think. Although it would be greener to plant by hand!

 

[Notch7]

A guy from NASA says he can plant 1 billion a year, with drones I think

Ive not seen a drone with a spade, maybe they have them in John Lewis this Christmas

 

[JP_]

It's all the rage. Why just spy on your neighbours when you can plant trees in their garden while they are out!

 

[motorbiking]

It would be nice if councils replaced all the trees they cut down at the side of roads.

 

[Brigadier]

Depends how high it is.

It's England, not the Siberian high plateau.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Tree line is around 600m. in England and Wales.

 

[Notch7]

montane habitats

 

[EFLImpudence]

Yes. There don't seem to be as many as I thought in England so perhaps Ian's moor could be used for tree planting.

 

[EddieM]

Tree line is around 600m. in England and Wales.

Well there's only 3 peaks in the peak district higher than that.

 

[EddieM]

There's a lot of money in trees - the forestry commission would probably be happy to plant on private land in a profit share scheme.

It was discussed on radio (no idea who was speaking) that we need to use more wood in construction too - our trees helped Britain conquer the world once!
More timber in homes would be greener than concrete and steel. All that timber in construction would be a carbon store, rather than need to burn fuel for steel construction.

2 billion should be doable. The only stats I can find at the moment:
"The area of woodland in the UK at 31 March 2019 is estimated to be 3.19 million hectares"
Based on 2000 trees per hectare, that's 6,380,000,000 trees. So only adding about 1/3 again.

A guy from NASA says he can plant 1 billion a year, with drones I think. Although it would be greener to plant by hand!

Oaks kinda slow growing.

 

[EddieM]

I lived in Buckinghamshire for most of my life, it's a very wooded county (Well south Bucks is, the chocolate box part), a lot of it beech trees, which were grown as a crop for the furniture industry (Buckinghamshire was the countries chair making capital for many years) The industry needless to say declined, but the woods stayed, having about a 100+ year crop cycle, it was very disconcerting when a couple of decades ago the trees needed harvesting, thankfully they were replanted with deciduous native species.

 

[Munroast]

There's a lot of money in trees - the forestry commission would probably be happy to plant on private land in a profit share scheme.

It was discussed on radio (no idea who was speaking) that we need to use more wood in construction too - our trees helped Britain conquer the world once!
More timber in homes would be greener than concrete and steel. All that timber in construction would be a carbon store, rather than need to burn fuel for steel construction.
2 billion should be doable. The only stats I can find at the moment:
"The area of woodland in the UK at 31 March 2019 is estimated to be 3.19 million hectares"
Based on 2000 trees per hectare, that's 6,380,000,000 trees. So only adding about 1/3 again.

think the 2000 per hectare must be at planting time, a mature broad leaf woodland would be closer to 350, and commercial sitika spruce etc may be 450 at harvesting.

https://www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/discover/moorland

"If the moorland was not grazed or managed, trees would appear and much of the moorland would slowly turn into woodland."

It would regenerate fairly quickly but deer would need to be removed as they love a bit of new growth, also need to stop sheep grazing and stop any muirburn.
and the vast majority won't be too chuffed when we start shooting bambi