"The whole re-forestation thing is a fraud," says one Alishan resident. Although farmers are required by law to engage in reforestation side-by-side with their high-altitude tea plantations or fruit orchards, they often deliberately stick the tree seedlings in tin cans just to get past the inspection count by the government, with their goal being to make sure that the seedlings can't grow and eventually die out.
「造林都是造假的，」另一位阿里山居民則說，儘管農民按規定須一邊造林、一邊種高山茶和果樹，但卻往往故意動手腳，將樹苗種在奶粉罐裡，既能通過主管單位數量的檢查，又能達到讓樹苗長不好、長不大而自然淘汰的目的。