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Yes, this means a ton of carbon ends up in the atmosphere instead of in the trees. The right move would be thinning and prescribed burns, but this administration isn’t going to do that.

  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    The absolute level of stupidity of this is ridiculous. Lumber mills are not designed for old growth trees in the modern era, so all these trees will not even become lumber. Logging has become very sustainable in recent decades. They farm trees and mill them when they reach the size that the machinery at the mills is optimized for. If we just cut down all the forests, the mills can’t even process the logs even though it’s better lumber. In reality, they’d just send the old growth logs to be ground for pulp which is a total waste. This video does a good job explaining it.

    https://youtu.be/efs5-FCVWvg