wow..i get downrated for asking to plant a tree! you are sure to go to hell!!!lol

How about both? See the common Christmas Tree you get from a lot is raised on a tree farm. It is planted with hundreds of others in nice neat rows, is yearly pruned and shaped and is harvested when it reaches X height. The following spring the row/plot it came from is tilled, stumps maybe pulled and a new row/plot of seedlings is planted. One of the things is that the tree planting starts 7 to 10 years prior to harvest, When these trees were planted their 'destiny' was well thought out. The reality is that in the Industrialized nations lumber, paper, Christmas trees mostly come from 'tree farms'. We no longer use old growth 'virgin' lumber for houses, the studs are taken from a tree farm of a fast growing variety (fir mostly). As soon as the tree is felled seedlings are planted. Since the early 1960's the number of trees in the USA alone has increased with millions of acres being planted, undoing a large chunk of the earlier period of deforestation. Besides, were will people plant their tree? Most suburban lots have a tree (or two) already planted. Most city plots have no room for trees, and apartment dwellers have no lot what so ever. The logistics of what you propose is not practical. What is more practical is for communities to start a 'tree drive' for their neighborhood - say planting trees in their local park, or having the city/community define a 'green zone' of wild land where nature takes her course. Then there is a downside to everyone planting pine or fir - many areas the pine/fir is not native, this has a fairly large negative impact on the natural ecology of the area.

I like the idea. When I was a kid, I always wanted Dad to plant the Christmas tree in the back yard so we could keep it. heh.