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Numerous organizations and individuals are recently pledging to plant a remarkable number of trees as a regenerative methodology to improve the people’s land and their livelihoods. Their main goal is to reforest the planet with billions of trees to establish a sustainable change, to revitalize degraded lands and to end hunger and poverty.
I wonder why everybody is only talking about planting trees (to absorb CO2). One should be aware of the fact that Mother Nature has shown us the way by covering the originally barren lands with a mixture of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, all together in one and the same location.
When green plants are invading a barren piece of land, one will never find an area with only trees. In this group of pioneer plants, one will always find trees, shrubs and herbaceous plant species growing together.
If remaining undisturbed, such a…
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antilandscaper 
You know, I never thought of it this way. It makes a lot of sense.
Not to mention all the mycorrhizal fungi, upon which ALL of the former depend!!
Good point. 🙂
That makes total sense. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Excellent post.
I work for an environmental organization that plants baby woodlands. We do naturalization plantings with trees and shrubs and more recently other plant groups in the city are putting native woodland plants into the mix. With the exception of a few years of aftercare to give them a good start, they are left to grow as they would in the wild.