70 Million acres with lets go with 150 trees per acre thats a helluva lot of dead trees laying about
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I think I read that after the great storm of 87 - or whenever it was, that the woodlands left as they were, recovered faster than those woodlands that had all the storm damage removed - I think it’s mostly to do with all the damage caused by heavy machinery churning all the ground up.
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Please feel free to disregard anything I post. Forbes also posted the article.
The original article is conspiracy theory nonsense -sadly the people who spread this nonsense know there are plenty of fickos happy to lap it up.
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Prove its nonsense then ?
that is a blatant lie
They covered the same story, not the same article
Instead of being dishonest grow a spine and admit you posted a load of conspiracy theory nonsense.
I’ve already done that
Interesting that you carefully ignored it.
Dead wood
Forest experts have long warned that decades of overly aggressive fire suppression policies in the US have produced dense, overgrown forests that significantly increase the risk of major conflagrations when wildfires inevitably occur. Climate change has exacerbated those dangers by creating hotter and drier conditions.Following a series of devastating fire years across the West, a number of states are increasingly funding efforts to clear out forests to reduce those dangers. That includes removing undergrowth, cutting down trees, or using controlled burns to break up the landscape and prevent fires from reaching forest crowns.
States are expected to produce more and more forest waste from these efforts as climate change accelerates in the coming years, says Justin Freiberg, managing director of the Yale Carbon Containment Lab, which has been conducting field trials exploring a number of “wood carbon containment” approaches under different conditions for several years.
But today, the harvested plants and trees are generally piled up in cleared areas and then left to rot or deliberately burned. That allows the carbon stored in them to simply return to the atmosphere, driving further warming.
A stealth effort to bury wood for carbon removal has just raised millions
Kodama has raised more than $6 million from Bill Gates’ climate fund and other investors, as it pursues new ways to reduce wildfire risks and lock away carbon in harvested trees.
www.technologyreview.com
complete non answer to back up your previous comment
How big a hole are they going to dig then to bury tens of millions of trees?I’ve already done that
Interesting that you carefully ignored it.
Dead wood
Forest experts have long warned that decades of overly aggressive fire suppression policies in the US have produced dense, overgrown forests that significantly increase the risk of major conflagrations when wildfires inevitably occur. Climate change has exacerbated those dangers by creating hotter and drier conditions.
Following a series of devastating fire years across the West, a number of states are increasingly funding efforts to clear out forests to reduce those dangers. That includes removing undergrowth, cutting down trees, or using controlled burns to break up the landscape and prevent fires from reaching forest crowns.
States are expected to produce more and more forest waste from these efforts as climate change accelerates in the coming years, says Justin Freiberg, managing director of the Yale Carbon Containment Lab, which has been conducting field trials exploring a number of “wood carbon containment” approaches under different conditions for several years.
But today, the harvested plants and trees are generally piled up in cleared areas and then left to rot or deliberately burned. That allows the carbon stored in them to simply return to the atmosphere, driving further warming.
A stealth effort to bury wood for carbon removal has just raised millions
Kodama has raised more than $6 million from Bill Gates’ climate fund and other investors, as it pursues new ways to reduce wildfire risks and lock away carbon in harvested trees.
A bit smaller than the hole you are digging for yourself
no come on how big a hole do you think needs to be dug or are they just going to fill in the grand canyon and throw some top soil over it
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You’ve got the spade I’m afraid.
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So you’ve not read the article, but still manage to dismiss it ?
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The link in the OP said that Bill Gates was pushing a plan to down 70 million acres of trees.
They could have said that Kodama Systems were trialling innovative ways to manage forestry in line with the US Forest Service guidelines. And that they had several financial backers.
But no, they had to shoehorn Bill Gates in somewhere. I wonder why...
The biggest threat to ancient forests are sheep, not fire. The woolly munchers nibble their way into the undergrowth and eat saplings before they have a chance to grow.It won't take long for something to recolonise the ground, that's true.
Just scour this, and think of the lovely stuff that could grow in its place............
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