[morkfromork]

Where do you get 350 million trees or even 350 million seedlings?

[CapitalistCartr]

In the United States, the Forestry Service provides them. Only commercially useful varieties, but they sell seedlings in units of 1,000 quantity. A thousand isn't that big. I can easily pick up the bundle. Large companies buy tens and hundreds of thousands each year.

[lokl]

In the U.S., some states also sell seedlings and in quantities less than 1000. A few examples (with prices):

New York: https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/75799.html

Virginia: http://dof.virginia.gov/infopubs/Seedling-Price-Guide_2018-2...

Washington: https://www.dnr.wa.gov/programs-and-services/forest-resource...

[koolba]

Any idea how much that costs?

EDIT - The sibling comment has links to listed prices.

[hourislate]

That's amazing and I hope it's true. I have friends who as students worked summers in BC, Canada planting seedlings after the loggers were finished with a cut. I'm sure they and these logging companies would be interested on how 350 Million trees are planted in 12 hours.

Here is how Ethiopia came to that number.

From the article:

> Various international organizations and businesses have joined the tree planting spree along with members of the public. It is not yet clear if Guinness World Records is monitoring Ethiopia's mass planting scheme.

However, the prime minister's office said specially developed software is helping with the count.

[onetimemanytime]

If it's a real forest loggers need not do anything, small trees and seedlings are probably plenty in that area.

[microcolonel]

> However, the prime minister's office said specially developed software is helping with the count.

So probably a bit of BS involved, still cool.

[tasssko]

Or the water. I remember researching reforestation and the first 10 years are tough and water is one huge challenge.

[chippy]

one single tree can produce about 10K seedlings in 1 year