The importance of protecting old trees
"Let the old trees do their work." This is the advice of Lea Sloan, a board member of the Old-Growth Forest Network. One mature tree can sequester as much carbon in a year as thousands of seedlings. So while planting trees may be important, protecting mature forests is even more so.
In line with this thinking, a welcome announcement in the Washington Post: "Biden signs order to protect US old-growth forests from wildfires." Great news, because clearly' replacing old growth forests that have been destroyed by fire or cutting will take much too long, 80-100 years, to give us any assistance with slowing down global climate change.
By the way, Biden also promised to plant 1.2 billion trees. So a win-win executive order.
Dig deeper into this topic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/04/21/biden-old-growth-forest-order/
https://www.oldgrowthforest.net/
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