Sunday, September 07, 2008

Forests break green ground by selling highly questionable offsets
Evan Smith wrapped a forester's measuring tape around the trunk of Tree 10525, a towering Douglas fir, to figure out its diameter. Then he used a screwlike device to remove a thin wood sample from the trunk so he could measure its rings.

The bigger the fir, the more it would be worth to Smith.

But not as lumber - as carbon.

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