Here’s what my Copilot says...... ( I have come to love Copilot for help on noncontroversial questions)
There has been some confusion and misinformation about Bill Gates and a project involving trees. Bill Gates, through his organization Breakthrough Energy, is funding a project led by Kodama Systems. This project aims to manage forests by thinning them and burying the biomass to prevent carbon emissions12. The idea is to cut down smaller, at-risk trees to improve forest health and reduce wildfire risks, then bury the biomass to sequester carbon23.
Contrary to some claims, this project is not about massive deforestation but rather about managing forests sustainably to combat climate change23.”
I’m all for planting a trillion trees, that’s good for the air and the water too. Don’t bury them, use them for lumber massive amounts of lumber, grow fruit trees ,nut trees too, use the sawdust to feed cows with it at 70% of their feed. It’s been done with great success. If you have excess wood turn that into ethanol,or protein or starch/lipids via GMO microbes that eat cellulose,and hemicellulose and excrete any of those bioproducts. Hooch,feed for chickens and pigs, or biodiesel. It’s a shame to just bury the wood to make the greencommies happy.
And that is what companies like Weyerhaeuser do...”manage forests”...unlike state or fed govt “forestry depts” who just want things “natural” ie, burning or overgrown.