Tree Planting

Species for Christmas Tree Planting in Virginia*

Christmas trees can be grown through out the state, and growers are located in all regions. Se lec tion of the proper species, however, is important. Soil conditions and gen er al climate are the primary considerations influencing species selection, but other characteristics, such as con sum er pref er ence, species characteristics and require ments, condition of the planting site, and the pres...

Implementing Municipal Tree Planting: Los Angeles Million-Tree Initiative

Urban forests are increasingly being seen as an important infrastructure that can help cities remediate their environmental impacts. This work reports on the first steps in implementing a million tree program in Los Angeles and the ways such a biogenic-living-infrastructure has been approached. Numbers of studies have been done to quantify the benefits of urban forests, but little has been writ...

Tree Planting in Indonesia: Trends, Impacts and Directions

Can the return of rainforest be accelerated without tree - planting ?

Recent decades have seen a big shift in the public perception of rainforests – from being overwhelmingly viewed as an obstacle to be cleared for agriculture or felled as a source of timber, to being valued by many and mostly protected from further clearing. It is now also several decades since TREAT members and other dedicated restoration pioneers started to develop tree-planting methods aimed ...

Tree Planting in the South: What Does the Future Hold?

Projected increasing demands for timber coupled with reduced harvests on public lands have led to concern among some forest policymakers regarding the adequacy of future U.S. timber supplies. One question concerns the likelihood that prevailing market incentives will induce industrial and nonindustrial private landowners to intensify forest management. We develop empirical models of historical ...