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Re: Desert restoration, effect on atmospheric CO2 levels
BRateaver wrote:
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> If someone would plant the kind of xerophytic forest type trees such as
> are found in southern Madagascar, there would be no goat problems. These
> trees are often Euphorbias, and the latex would turn the goats away. These
> trees are already accustomed to near-desert conditions.
Yes, but are the euphorbias useful to the local people for anything other
than erosion control/possible long-term rainfall increase? Never visited
the south so I don't know. You're not going to be allowed to plant a
whole lot of useless trees in people's pastures/possible fields.. and
erosion-rainfall benefits are too long-term for most people to believe
in. (Might get them planted but they'd get burned "by accident" pretty
quick.)
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