[Terrapreta] Tree planting -- a bit more

[Duane Pendergast]

Lou,

 

I guess Mike has not noticed yet that Canada's dead trees become houses in
Canada and the US. There's your carbon sink. The renewing forest keeps on
removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  The missing link here is to
turn any dead houses into charcoal and rebuild the soil with them. Keep up
the good work.

 

Duane

 

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Subject: [Terrapreta] Tree planting -- a bit more

 

Kelpie Wilson over at TruthOut as juxtaposed two recent articles on tree
planting, soils, etc.
They reveal the issues. http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120307EA.shtml 

There's tremendous misunderstanding and I suspect lots is reported without
full context. Here's an example:

    "Forests are a band-aid," said Mike Flannigan, a research scientists at
the Canadian Forest Service. "Eventually, forests die, releasing all that
stored carbon into the atmosphere." 

    "Forests are carbon-neutral over the long term," Flannigan told IPS. 

 

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