This whole carbon reserve/climate change fairy tale is grownups playing pretend. It is silly.
They better manage those forests so that the undergrowth does not make it hard to put out forest fires.
This is how they close off land to use by people.
Agenda 21
Washington state already has a much larger area of national forests.
And a moron for a governor who wanted to be the Resident in the white house, a man who grabbed emergency covid powers and refuses to give them up
I think that’s a square less than 4 miles per side.
What was learned in the spotted owl debacle was that at around 60 to 70 years, a tree no longer is a carbon bank but starts to give off CO2 rather than absorb it. That’s why you need younger trees.All old growth actually works against reducing green house gasses.
that’ll work fine until on a dry day a match is struck!
oh, i forgot something .. are these lovely minded folks going to keep humans out?
how do they propose to do that?
i bet weyerhauser is just willing to let the govrernment do that!
why not just set aside all the new growth around Mt. St. Helens?
Now we see where this scam is headed. And the only people living near that carbon reserve will be elitists who can afford it.
Stupid is as stupid does
So the 8000 acres of forest 500 feet from my driveway is available. If you want offsets I’m leasing them for $250 acre. Please don’t tell the actual owner.
It gives them something to do and makes them feel good as Seattle goes to crap.
The fact they would write this shows how F’ing stupid journalist have become. 10,000 acres is a tiny plot of land in that area. I have a friend with 64,000 and he are not even the largest land owner in his county. What a joke.
Why do they have to sell them.
This sounds a bit like making up a story and then forcing people to buy the real estate mentioned in the story.
The program in Washington is launching with protection of forests in Whatcom, Thurston, King and Grays Harbor counties.
more diabolical silliness
“Purchasers are expected to be larger corporations seeking to achieve reductions in their carbon emissions, said Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz, adding that in the first 10 years of the program, the DNR hopes to sell 900,000 credits reducing carbon emissions to the atmosphere by the equivalent of 2 billion vehicle miles traveled.”
The selling of indulgences is nothing new.
Environmentalists seem to have forgotten that trees are renewable resources. With today’s forestry practices, new trees are immediately planted after logging. In the U.S., at least; this is not necessarily the case in places like Brazil or Southeast Asia, which will be very happy to increase timber harvests to supply U.S. markets deprived of domestic production.
Lease lands they don’t own so they can dispense (sell) out ‘credits’ for a problem that doesn’t exist. Added incentive is that if the erstwhile ‘carbon credit’ buyer doesn’t agree, they get hounded and punished by their state government rules.
Nice scam. Al Gore got stinking rich swimming in those same waters....
IIRC, the Roman Catholic Church latched on that kind of thing way back (stopped in the mid-1500s, though). They called it “indulgences.”
If I had tried this when I was in college 50 years ago, I would be locked up for fraud scamming. 10,000 acres is only 15.6 square miles or a patch of ground 3.94 miles square, hardly enough trees to make a difference in this world.