Is there a way to promote well succeeded air-seeding actions for reforastation?
Why is that, in specific? What are the primary causes? Is there another better and effective way to try this same initiative, which perhaps was not tried before?
The benefits of spreading seeds over big/steep areas in a shorter period of time seems intuitively motivating.
Answer:
Air seeding can fail due to rodents eating the seeds, underbrush and competing vegetation.
Air seeding has the most satisfactory results on moderately burned areas vs. heavily burned areas (areas where a forest fire has occured). This is because the rodent population is wiped out when there has been a forest fire AND some seeds from the original trees survive and sprout when it was a moderate fire versus a severe fire.
Diluting the seeds with sawdust is cost efficient and helps the plane disperse the seed correctly. The planes should do multiple passes so that there is a little overlap in seeding, which assures a fairly uniform density sowing.
Mhem... I thought trees also grow from small broken branches. We sure got lots of these in BC last year. Sure like to get rid of them. I took 30 pickup truck loads to the dump. Anyone available with a plane that can spread them around.
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