Re: How millions of trees brought a broken landscape back to life | Environment | The Guardian

Kathy,

Great to see this happen, but I have been in coal country in Pennsylvania. The rivers 25 years after reforestation are still sterile — no fish or other creature, just a brown algae bloom on the bottom. The biodiversity in these reforested areas is very low.

We definitely should reforest devastated areas, but it takes centuries in most cases for nature to effectively regenerate poisoned, deforested places. It is clearly best to not destroy them to begin with. That said, we have a lot of poisoned and deforested areas, and the sooner we can clean up and reforest areas the better.

Mike

> On Aug 7, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com> wrote:
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> Albert / Mike
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> FYI . . .
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> How millions of trees brought a broken landscape back to life | Environment | The Guardian
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> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/07/national-forest-woodland-midlands-regeneration <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/07/national-forest-woodland-midlands-regeneration>
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> Kathy