I always find it interesting when it takes years of research and untold dollars to discover that Mother Nature just knows what she's doing. Case in point: A recent report by researchers in Australia discovered that untouched, natural forests can store up to three times the carbon than those forests created in man-made tree farms and plantations. Plus, to add insult to injury, those untouched forests not only store more, but the carbon that is stored is never released, as it is with tree farms that are frequently logged."Protecting the carbon in natural forests is preventing an additional emission of carbon from what we get from burning fossil fuel," says Brendan Mackey, co-author of the report. "The majority of biomass carbon in natural forests resides in the woody biomass of large old trees. Commercial logging changes the age structure of forests so that the average age of trees is much younger."
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