[Terrapreta] Earthen Kilns Conjecture

[Greg and April]

Just a second.

While wholesale logging of healthy old growth trees is a real bad idea, the logging of diseased trees, and areas that are over grown ( like with a lot of spindly that are not growing well ) can only help the forest.

For those of you that see this as a CO2 issue, there is also this to keep in mind, young trees ( especially in early stages of succession ), grow many times faster than older trees, taking up CO2 faster than an older tree of the same total mass.


So in a sense, selective use of logging can not only promote a healthier forest, it can take up CO2 faster in some cases.


Greg H.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sean K. Barry 
  To: lou gold ; Michael Bailes 
  Cc: terrapreta 
  Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 19:35
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Earthen Kilns Conjecture


  SNIP

  I do not think we want to consider harvesting old growth forests anyway now, to make charcoal to put into Terra Preta Nova soils.  No one hear thinks that is what needs be done and it's because the ancients did it that way.  
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