These planting projects, called monoculture tree plantations, focus on creating large swathes of a forest made up of a single tree species like pine or eucalyptus.

"Monoculture -- planting vast areas with a single crop -- is driven by technological reasons rather than biological ones. Practical aspects of planting and harvesting have motivated this approach.

Monoculture can really be a good option when it comes to containers. Andrea, who is a trained horticulturist and now serves as a Master Gardener, chose to group several containers together on her ...

Done carelessly, big tree-planting operations are nothing more than a colossal waste of money. Often, tree planting projects are monoculture operations. Frequently they involve non-native species.

A new paper cautions against monoculture planting as a solution. ... At Cop26 in 2021, world leaders pledged to halt and reverse deforestation by the end of this decade, although data shows that ...

Forestry experts understand that a monoculture of trees — like the black spruce saplings we were planting, six feet apart in neat rows — has made wildfires more likely and much worse when they ...

"Monoculture—planting vast areas with a single crop—is driven by technological reasons rather than biological ones. Practical aspects of planting and harvesting have motivated this approach.