Drones are a new tool being added to help reforestation efforts. Fires, floods and logging all leave land barren. This stripped land leads to a cascade of other environmental hazards.
Traditional reforestation methods even more labor intensive through steep mountains and valleys. Guam is a great region to test out drones because of its rugged terrain.
Via Washington Post:
“We’ve been planting thousands and thousands of trees,” said Austin Shelton, who oversees a project called Guam Restoration of Watersheds (GROW). “It’s still like putting a Band-Aid on one hole on your shower head.”
Drones, he hopes, will help give his team a leg up.
The researchers also constructed a machine — a spinning plastic drum powered by an air-conditioning motor — that can speed up the process of making seed balls, a combination of seeds, peat moss and red clay soil from the restoration site.
Read more! Could seed-sowing drones transform ravaged landscapes?
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