Trees spread naturally over time, they'll grow around anywhere the player visits, but only on grass and dirt areas, not concrete or any man-made tiles or sandy deserts etc. This originally was msakuta's mod! I simply patched it to version 0.16 of Factorio.
Version: 1.1 Date: 12. 06. 2021 Changes: - Release 1.1
Version: 0.18.0 Date: 28. 01. 2020 Changes: - Release 0.18
Version: 0.17.0 Date: 04. 03. 2019 Changes: - Release 0.17 - changelog & thumbnail
Version: 0.3.1 Date: 04. 01. 2018 Added: - implemented configuration options (en, de) -> config.lua is obsolete
Version: 0.3.0 Date: 31. 12. 2017 Changes: - Release 0.16, simply edited info.json