[forester]

The short answer is that $413,000 will reforest less 1% of the area burned. Here is the long answer:

*Assume that the area is replanted to 300 trees per acre (12' x 12' spacing). This is the minumum stocking standards in California by the way.
* From the article above: $9,000 ÷ 25,000 trees = 36¢/tree
* Assume in the ground cost of 77¢/tree (36¢ for the seedling and 41¢ to plant it)
* 300 trees/acre x 77¢/tree = $231 per acre in reforestation costs alone.
* $413,000 ÷ $231/acre = 1,787 acres - that is how much the Governor's check will replant.
* 469,000 acres x $231/acre = $108,339,000.00

The article says this is for private ground only, so it is not supposed to replant the whole thing because alot of the land burned was on the Apache Reservation; and to be realistic, alot of that ground was pinion and juniper woodland. So even if one only replants half of the area burned, the total cost is over $50 million dollars, because the project would involve planting over 70 million trees.

[Carry_Okie]

Thanks, I hadn't a clue.
$250/ acre for purposes of memory.
While you're here, how much for aereal grass seeding?
Don't "cheat" on the numbers now! ;-)

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That was "cheat grass" for those who didn't know. :-))