How many Trees does it take ... to brighten someone day?
Probably just one or two well placed Arbor vitae ...
The most common mistake when planting a tree is a digging hole, which is both too deep and too narrow. Too deep and the roots don’t have access to sufficient oxygen to ensure proper growth. Too narrow and the root structure can’t expand sufficiently to nourish and properly anchor the tree.
As a general rule, trees should be transplanted no deeper than the soil in which they were originally grown. The width of the hole should be at least 3 times the diameter of the root ball or container or the spread of the roots in the case of bare root trees. This will provide the tree with enough worked earth for its root structure to establish itself.
When digging in poorly drained clay soil, it is important to avoid ‘glazing’. Glazing occurs when the sides and bottom of a hole become smoothed forming a barrier, through which water has difficulty passing. To break up the glaze, use a fork to work the bottom and drag the points along the sides of the completed hole. [...]
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-- All Photos in this post are by jamess
How many acres of trees are required to neutralize the carbon output of the average car?
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Cars output carbon at a certain rate, and trees absorb carbon. How many acres of trees are required to make a single car "carbon neutral"?
Answer from a_scientist:
About two and a half acres, or roughly 250 trees.
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Nice question!
I'm going to estimate using carbon data for the U.S. as a whole; the people who developed these data probably used small scale data like carbon per tree or per acre to build up their totals. But I have easier access to their conclusions than to their assumptions, so I will back out the small scale data from the U.S. totals.
Total annual carbon sequestered by forest plants in 1992 was estimated at 111 million metric tons; to this we may add an estimated 127 million metric tons deposited on the forest floor. Total: 238 million metric tons per year.
In the same year, estimated motor gasoline consumed for transportation was 263 million metric tons. So our forests neutralize our cars; we just need to do something about that other fuel burned for heat, electricity, and industry ;) [...]
How much CO2 does one tree absorb (per year or per lifetime)?
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Each person in the U.S. generates approximately 2.3 tons of CO2 each year. A healthy tree stores about 13 pounds of carbon annually -- or 2.6 tons per acre each year. An acre of trees absorbs enough CO2 over one year to equal the amount produced by driving a car 26,000 miles.
Source: Benefits of Trees In Urban Areas -- coloradotrees.org
How many Trees does it take ... to create a "carbon sink"?
Trees provide 'free subsidy' for nature, study finds
CNN.com -- February 18, 2009
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Undisturbed tropical forests are absorbing nearly one-fifth of the CO2 released by burning fossil fuels, a new study has found.
The scientific report published in "Nature" magazine suggests that the world's remaining tropical forests remove 4.8 billion tons of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere each year. This includes a previously unknown carbon sink in Africa, which annually absorbs 1.2 billion tons of CO2.
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"We are receiving a free subsidy from nature," said Dr. Simon Lewis from the University of Leeds, and the lead author of the paper, in a press statement.
"Tropical forest trees are absorbing about 18 percent of the CO2 added to the atmosphere each year from burning fossil fuels, substantially buffering the rate of climate change."
UN’s Billion Tree Campaign Hits its Seven Billion Goal Target
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Highlights of the Billion Tree Campaign
In the past eight months China planted 6.1 billion trees, of which 2.6 billion have been given to the Billion Tree Campaign. With the announcement of these 2.6 additional billion trees, the grand total number of trees planted for the campaign stands at 7.3 billion as of 21 September. The government planted 260 different species of trees in eleven provinces around China, from Inner Mongolia to Jiangxi and from Yunnan to Sichuan.
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To name a few, the Replant New Orleans Initiative sponsored a planting of fruit trees to help breathe new life into a community struggling with the aftermath of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina;
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The economic gains of tree planting are powerfully illustrated by the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative. As well as being close to planting 38 million trees in the Appalachian region, the North American organization has also devised a green job tree planting proposal to stimulate the economy of Appalachia and reap the ecological benefits of a region-wide reforestation effort.
Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative
Replant New Orleans Initiative
How many Trees does it take ... to ...
Plant a Billion Trees
We are less than 34,000 trees away from ten million!
As our total grows to within 34,000 of ten million trees planted, we would like to thank you for your generous support. As a reminder of the important work that is happening, please see this gorgeous photo of the Southern Bahia forest cover on the Nova Angelica farm, Bahia, Brazil, part of the Conservancy's Southern Bahia Conservation Program.
Plant a Tree
One Dollar. One Tree. One Planet.
by The Nature Conservancy
-- All Photos in this post are by jamess ...
Documenting some of the remaining CO2-capturing forests of the Pacific NW of America.
That previous graphic shows the historical trends for "old growth" forests, as I recall.
This next graphic is a bit more hopeful, h/t to badger. It shows the current "BioMass Forest stocks", and their current CO2 storage capacity in Metric Tons per Hectare:
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When you get a chance -- Plant a Tree -- help save the planet.