Trees Near 'Carbon Saturation Point'

"These forests have now reached 70-80 years old and are starting a phase in the life of a tree where the growth rate starts to come down," he explained.

"So you have large areas of old forest and even if you add these relatively small areas of new forest, this does not compensate for the loss of growth rate in the old forests."

Here is a crazy thought. What if we cut them down and used the wood to build houses and other structures and whatnot to sequester the carbon into useful items then planted new trees to replace the ones we cut down and used?

Then after those items that were built out of that wood become no longer useful we bury them in places to fill in land to make room for more trees to be planted or other structures made from wood to be built on that new land that was filled in with old wood and related byproducts?

We can't cut them down....the're protected! LOL

I think they mean that carbon sequestration is currently peaking in that area....and that, would be according to study parameters....

Then after those items that were built out of that wood become no longer useful we bury them in places to fill in land to make room for more trees to be planted or other structures made from wood to be built on that new land that was filled in with old wood and related byproducts?

Seems like a recipe for unstable ground- but wait! Maybe we could burn them at that point instead, extracting useable energy as a part of the natural carbon cycle!! Wow, what a paradigm shift for greenies!!!

Seems like the correct order would be to plant more trees, THEN harvest the mature one's. Planning would be necessary and that is usually in short supply.

Sooner or later Nature (or man's willingness to not comply) will impose its own limit to human population.Then things can begin to return to a natural order, based on the changes in the algorithm man has now added. I like George Carlin's suggestion that the only reason Earth needed man was it needed plastic. I don't agree with all of his logic, or statements, but in general it's funny and insightful.

We have that in Florida. It is called fire - the natural recycler.

... and hurricanes... and ?

I am beginning to think (for the last 7 years that I have lived here) that as long as the government weather service keeps predicting we will experience a greater than normal number of hurricanes that we will indeed see none.

El what? El, yeah.

Here's one company that claims much.

They have the same in Idaho and it's happening as we sit at our computers. Maybe if they allowed some logging to harvest those dry "over-the-hill" trees and create firebreak areas it wouldn't spread as rapidly and as far.

We had discussed tree growth in another thread. Matt Ridley's youtube presentation presents that we are growing more trees today than any time in the past millennium. So why isn't Germany planting more new growth trees to compensate for a loss of CO2 sink?