12-22-2016, 09:39 PM
(12-22-2016, 09:30 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I don't know that I would be. You're right we're limited by funding. I'm willing to wait for more trees, than have fewer trees sooner.
I agree with the rest of your post, but it's not a question of waiting for more trees, versus fewer trees sooner. tomh009 is right that you can plant mature trees. With less resources, Forestry will plant juvenile trees, but at a spacing appropriate for their mature size. While it might be very sensible to plant young trees, with a view to thinning them as they grow, that's not the practice. We plant more-or-less according to mature spacing, and then watch some (no idea how many) die and leave gaps.
I have a suspicion it would ultimately be more cost effective to plant fewer individual larger trees, and care for them properly, than to plant as many young trees as we do now, neglect them, see some (again- no idea how many exactly) perish, cut those out, and replace them.