Okay, gang: As someone…

Okay, gang:

As someone professionally versed in both carbon accounting and organic landscape management, live trees are carbon sinks - they actively sequester carbon every year (in addition to stabilizing their watersheds, providing habitat, clean air, etc.)

Wood pellet energy is NOT carbon neutral - fat from it. More recent studies find it to be on par with coal power in systems with lower efficiency. Not only does it release the carbon stored in the wood back into the atmosphere, it also halts the sequestration process, contributes to soil degradation, loss of habitat, decreased air quality, and more.

We need to be preserving our old growth - ALL old growth, everywhere on the planet - as the older the trees, the better they are at sequestering and providing other invaluable ecosystem services.

Please, please listen to the experts sounding the alarm on this issue. Our rampant exploitation of forests, especially old growth, has to stop right now.