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To: ManyMoose who wrote (290647)8/27/2002 10:01:37 AM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Leaves come and leaves go. If a forest is going to sink carbon, how is going to do it. Simple the tree grows and and does not produce limbs that will die and return the captured carbon.

In a managed forest trees are culled to allow the strongest to grow at a maximum rate producing many fewer limbs that die as the tree grows. Spaced trees donot grow into each other killing parts of each tree. Less of the tree growth goes into limbs that will die.

Management is us humans looking at the big picture and creating a growth environment that minimizes what I would call wasted growth. It's really conceptually little different than growing vegetables. Selective culling to maximize yield.

As the tree canopy grows smaller trees and other weed plants that will most likely die and competitively use nutrients cannot grow.

In a managed forest the amount of year after year living wood created is maximized. Thus the amount of captured carbon increases.
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