A child helps plant pine tree saplings on the coast of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Saturday. Photo: Kyodo
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Pine tree replanting project starts in tsunami-hit Rikuzentakata

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Love pine trees save the seeds and grow them

I have 3 monsters growing in my back yard

Pine trees can provide warmth from saving their pine cones for their heat

But in Australia the Parrots Cockatoos and Major Mitchel's love the cones they chew them then fly off dropping the cones like bombs on unsuspecting cars

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At 300 yen per pop, how about getting the local community to grow them from scratch and use 12 million dollars for education and health. Iwate people are very good at growing things.

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Not sure where you got 300 yen per tree from, but if that is the price it seems fair. The cheapest I've seen for something comparable is around 1,500 yen at a garden centre.

(I suspect you divided the US$ 12.13m figure by 40,000 so that is in fact $300 per tree, which will of course include ground preparation and planting costs. Given the amount of salt deposited, I daresay the preparation costs were rather a lot.)

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