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by jquast 1014 days ago
I only own a half acre of property and it’s chock full of them. I live in the United States, there isn’t any land that I would plant on in my county that isn’t owned public or privately, that the gas and oil or electricity companies won’t cut down, much less the commercial timber industry which takes up about 50% of the land, anyway, I’d love to plant trees but what would you recommend, trespass on private company and hope the owner doesn’t clear it out?
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Also it’s more than just planting, they need careful tending for the first few years, whether fertilizing or fighting aphids or disease, I don’t want to just volunteer to plant trees in some far away place nobody tends to, lots of those “plant a million trees” programs become “maybe a hundred thousand survived” stories, especially if care is not taken to use an appropriate tree for the conditions it is planted.

Anyway I’d just like to know what you think about “gorilla growing” because very few people own more than an acre, and, especially where I live, people are very hostile about trespassing, it could get you killed