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<blockquote data-quote="farmerm" data-source="post: 6629787" data-attributes="member: 7195"><p>I would agree.. if you start with a mature woodland, fell it, burn it and replant it then it can not possibly be a carbon sink and like you say cant even be carbon neutral once you account for the diesel used to harvest, transport and replant. It could only be a carbon sink if the carbon locked up in the Timber is kept locked up by preserving the timber indefinitely.</p><p></p><p>if you start with an arable field and put commercial woodland on it would be a carbon sink for a period before it reaches the phase above... and back in recent history that productive arable field was probably mature woodland.. so really the only carbon planting tree on it can sink is equivalent to that released when it first became farmland... meanwhile the oil and gas that was stored in the ground much earlier continues to be released back into the atmostphere..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerm, post: 6629787, member: 7195"] I would agree.. if you start with a mature woodland, fell it, burn it and replant it then it can not possibly be a carbon sink and like you say cant even be carbon neutral once you account for the diesel used to harvest, transport and replant. It could only be a carbon sink if the carbon locked up in the Timber is kept locked up by preserving the timber indefinitely. if you start with an arable field and put commercial woodland on it would be a carbon sink for a period before it reaches the phase above... and back in recent history that productive arable field was probably mature woodland.. so really the only carbon planting tree on it can sink is equivalent to that released when it first became farmland... meanwhile the oil and gas that was stored in the ground much earlier continues to be released back into the atmostphere.. [/QUOTE]
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