This week's side occupation: mass murder of infant maple trees.
This week's side occupation: mass murder of infant maple trees.
I have yet to reconcile this activity with the world's need for more trees. Eliminating an incipient forest feels evil.

I have yet to reconcile this activity with the world's need for more trees. Eliminating an incipient forest feels evil.


I agree!
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Zara Altair you could offset the destruction by purchasing Carbon Credits >>
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... a Silver Maple traps aprox 25,000 pounds of CO2 in a 55 year period at $5.95 per 1,000 pounds ~ each tree would be offset by $148.75. in 2016 USD.
Hart GA :) At 50-100 a day, that would be a hefty chunk of change.
ReplyDeleteAnd this activity from someone who drove miles and spent hours at Strybing Arboretum https://goo.gl/CvMRyd cultivating native seedlings, nurturing them, and then planting in among the trees. I see now it is a "botanical garden" as well as an arboretum.
I'm not ready to start a tree nursery, yet. Perhaps next year. :)
Rotimi Orimoloye It feels wrong. My heart lurches as I pull up those cotyledons with long roots.
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