E.E wrote:
There is -no- planting in the Eurozone at all?
I think this is your solution. I hear this person well though, I have wanted to plant in Canada for a really long time as I miss just being a production planter on a crew, with no worries aside from pushing the start button in the morning. I still get to plant sometimes, and those are my favorite days. Just pick up the load and go, hoping the phone doesn't ring nor anyone else does anything stupid.
In Europe though, there has to be some planting work. I would find it by figuring out who is growing tree seedlings from seed and talking to that nursery about it. Whoever is buying the seedlings is getting them planted. Forest management is hundreds of years old in Europe and relies on long-term select cut strategies without much clearcut/replant. Nonetheless I would expect there is some of that in eastern European countries and Scandinavia, though I would also expect a lot of such work to be done by machines. And even where that is not happening, anywhere there is private land-ownership there should be tree planting to meet landowner objectives that aren't purely timber related, such as planting spruce to screen a property line, or soft-mast bearing shrubs for bird habitat, etc.
I did read once that the Nazis did some tree planting in the 30s; one of their projects was revealed from the air in the 1980s as they had used to two differing conifer species to plant a swastika pattern only visible much later from above. That one was cut and replanted, but I did get a good idea out of that...
