There's a meeting to be held next week in Berlin which will have a twist or two tied to it. It's a 'woods meeting', where various public and private forest owners, along with state officials from the sixteen states, and some federal folks will meet and talk about reforestation.
I noted this brought up today....the state of Saarland (to the far west of Germany).....while small for its size....has the highest proportion of deciduous trees in Germany. You can refer this type as the non-pine type, or the ones which lose their leaves each fall.
If you've never been to the Saarland, I would strongly recommend a trip through it. It is a bit rural....I will emphasize that ahead of time.
There is a plan underway by the Merkel coalition and called the 'master-plan', which has around ten points to it. One of the points, which Germany wants the states and forest owners to take up....is a massive million-trees to be planted idea.
The cost of this million-tree idea? The federal government would match up funds with the state governments. Who'd do the planting? That's the unknown part of the story. Maybe you could entice some youth groups to come out on Friday afternoons, instead of the strike business....to just go and plant trees instead. Or maybe you could entice the Hartz IV welfare recipients to take up a month of tree planting for a supplement allowance.
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