The Biden administration plans to ban logging in old-growth forests, which are far better at storing carbon than newly planted and young trees, but it all depends on results of the 2024 election.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/19/biden-forest-logging-ban-old-trees #Logging #Climate #USFS #Biden
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@mark_ohe as trees get old and toward the end of their life cycle they end up releasing even more potent carbon into the atmosphere, though.
It becomes pretty effective to harvest them to keep the carbon sequestered into things like house construction, while making more room for new trees to take in even more carbon.
So this kind of thing can be pretty counterproductive.
