Reforestando España - Proyecto Ardilla

According to some famous guy, or a legend... well, I don't know where I heard this, but someone said once that during the Roman empire a squirrel could cross Spain from North to South without touching the ground, from tree to tree.

Well, that was long ago, and now, unfortunately, he would have to walk most of the way... So, the other day the thought of all Spaniards getting together and making that possible crossed my mind. What a nice goal to unite people.

So, here I am starting to research that. Let's start by random thoughts:

1. Looks like actually some folks running for president had promised planting lots of trees... LOTS of them. 800M once!
2. In Spain there are 7G trees in 18.5M hectares (100x100sqm, 2.5 acres), from a total surface of 505k sqkm (50Mhectares). Not bad, actually.
3. How are we going to go over roads? I guess under a bridge or above a tunnel...
4. The Bonn Challenge
5. Reforesta.es
6. How much to plant a tree?
1. $0.1 to $1.4/tree depending of a lot of factors.
2. In your backyard, depends on the size, can go to thousands of dollars.
3. Cuanto cuesta reforestar una hectarea (Mejico) Un monton de informacion buena. They say about $4.5k. They say about 1k trees per hectare. And the price includes everything (including manpower, watering...) for the first year, but no yearly support.

These guys have a blog on los Monegros. A desert in Spain. One in the comments talks about reforesting it. It looks like this desert may have been direct consequence of human actions.
A nice article on the topic. And another one but about Cantabria and Burgos reforestation. Mentions $4k per hectare.

Other random links (while I get time to sort all this through):

• http://bosquihermanos.blogspot.com/2008/04/daos-del-eucalipto.html
• Rendimiento por hectarea
• Recognizing different types of trees

By the way, the link above is an excellent source of other data (like how much water is consumed, what is the cost, how much trash is generated, population, health system, expenses...)

Anyhow, posting this to at least put the idea out there...
Cheers!

PS.: for kickers, ardilla.blogspot.com is taken. And like that almost anything I looked for: reforestar, reforestando, squirrel, dearboles, even proyectoardilla... amazing.