Planting Trees Is A Success

Many people are in favor for a better environment, but how many of those people are taking action by planting trees to change our environment?

There are many things that one person, or a group of people can do to change the environment for the better. The most common forms of rehabilitating the environment is reforestation.

There are two types of reforestation, managed and natural. Managed reforestation is when humans are planting trees for a depleted forest by physical or mechanical seeding, seedlings, or juvenile trees.

The goal of managed reforestation is to be planting trees to re-create the forest before the destruction took place in the forest's area. However, the other type of reforestation is natural reforestation.

Natural reforestation is when the forest has the ability to rehabilitate itself without any outside influence. Humans are not needed for natural reforestation therefore, the planting trees is not necessary for this type of reforestation. Fallen trees, left as nature intended, provide habitat needs for birds, insects, and mammals. As the trees decompose, the trees nourish the soil for the next generation of seedlings.

After the destruction of the forest, when damage is too thorough, managed reforestation is often the type of reforestation to choose for that particular forest.

Decision For Managed Reforestation

When deciding upon this type of reforestation, it may be also to reduce erosion, prevent landslides, mudslides, and prevent incursion of inasive species.

Inasive species often mature faster than the native species and will absorb all of the sunlight, water, and soil nutrients the native species need to grow.

Where the tress are planted:

• The United States National Forests
• The United States National Parks
• Additional Areas To Be Planted

Why is all this planting of trees needed you ask? Three main reasons why forests need planting of trees is because past volcanoes, recent hurricanes, and present forest fires have depelted our environment.

All three of these disasters have hurt our forests and the forests need rebuilding. Here is some quick facts for you:

• After Katrina in 2005, 70% of trees that were in the path of the hurricane were destroyed.
• Hurricane Wima, also in 2005, left Florida with 30% of the state's trees.
• July 4th,2008, the northern California area lost 520,831 due to severe forest fires. This exceeds the state record estimated at 500,000 just set last year!