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SWBTATTReg

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1. Ridiculous. Mouths off without looking seriously at the facts or doings of anything...

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Wed Feb 19, 2020, 01:23 PM

Feb 2020

Planting a tree every 100 feet x 100 feet, giving each tree plenty of room to grow, means that

2800 trees roughly per square mile (100 x 100 feet per tree). For the state of Missouri, which has roughly 60,000 square miles, this would mean 167 million trees, plus or minus. And almost 8.4 billion trees for the whole US, 50 x 60,000 or 3 million square miles.

And rump wants to plant a million times more than the area of the whole USA.

Idiot.

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Trump's Plan to Plant a Trillion Saplings Misses the Forest for the Trees [View all] douglas9 Feb 2020 OP

Ridiculous. Mouths off without looking seriously at the facts or doings of anything... SWBTATTReg Feb 2020 #1

There was nothing in the article where he stated the amount of trees he wanted to plant. virgogal Feb 2020 #2

It's not the point, the point is that it's unfeasible and just where are you going to plant the ... SWBTATTReg Feb 2020 #3

If England can plant a million,as it is doing, we could plant quite a few. virgogal Feb 2020 #4

Absolutely. I know that large swatches of the west had caught on fire, hopefully they're... SWBTATTReg Feb 2020 #6

There is no replacement occurring in the West NickB79 Feb 2020 #8

Where did you get 100 feet? Midnightwalk Feb 2020 #5

I used a hundred because that's my estimate for old oak trees and such, pines can grow... SWBTATTReg Feb 2020 #7