The Solution of Surplus. by Woodlands 2000 Trust
Pitch
A surplus of hardwood timber trees could create a dry firewood off cuts supply.
Description
Summary
Controlled aerial tree seeding for low cost landscape scale reafforestation to provide a surplus of high value timber hardwood trees over the next 5-10 decades that could drive a long term timber industry. This could, as part of its waste stream, produce kiln dried off cuts that would be ideal for using in firewood cook stoves.
Category of the action
Adaptation
Who will take these actions?
Relevant Govt. agencies (Forestry Dept., Airforce, Universities etc.) with support for piloting the project through appropriate partners such as MIT.
What are other key benefits?
A vast investment in landscape scale (millions of acres) forest restoration at a very marginal cost. ($0.01c per tree perhaps).
Kickstarting a National indigenous hardwood tree seed growing and collecting industry loosely based on the existing coffee industry that could provide 'green collar' jobs to thousands of people regionally.
Piggybacking various agro-economic aerial imagining platforms to collect data for the National Govt. while seeding forests.
What are the proposal’s costs?
Given the scale of landscape forest restoration - aerial seeding, especially when automated can reduce the costs of planting more than 100 million trees in tropical areas by more than 60% as compared to the current traditional methods.
Time line
5-15 years - Piloting and perfecting aerial manual and autonomous tree seeding and initiation of a National tree seed collection program.
15-50 years - Scaling up the program regionally and perfecting woodlands management and value chain to point of sale.
50-100 years - Sustainable indigenous hardwood forest by-products industries that are contributing to positive economic, environmental and social stability.
Related proposals
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/geoengineering/llS-vGQkZmE/MFxXv-7sQCAJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/geoengineering/llS-vGQkZmE/MFxXv-7sQCAJ
References
http://reskqu.blogspot.co.ke/2008/12/scorched-earth-charcoal-kiln-re.html
By:
Woodlands 2000 Trust
