While this is indeed not how trees work, it puts the number into a useful perspective.

Finland, comparable in size to Montana, is basically one huge forest (75% tree cover) dotted with lakes, and a lot of those forests are harvested every year. Of the entire EU, this is probably the place where trees are the least rare.

250 thousand trees cut down in England would have been a very different story.

Exactly. There's a whole gestation period where the mom tree carries the baby tree to term. Then the baby tree needs years to mature and develop. And because the dad tree was lost in the great google felling of 2026, the baby tree will be raised in a single tree family household, which will put additional strain on its development.

Single tree moms are less of a problem in the Nordics though. Programs like Head Saplings can help though.

Oh, that's just great. It'll turn into a juvenile delinquent tree, hiding behind other trees to leap out and scare unsuspecting hikers.

Bro is using the Factorio model of resource reallocation.