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Managing BC's forests for a cooler planet : Managing British Columbia's forests for a cooler planet

8 Jan 2010

In light of the stresses that forests face as a result of are logged and when, climate change, BC should increase the area of old-growth and, in some cases, called the Carbon second-growth forests conserved. [...] The forests of tomorrow are, in many cases, already rising from the shadows of the dead pine trees that now blanket swaths of the province’s interior. [...] They worried both about the consequences to carbon storage and cycling as a result of a dramatic increase in the logging of dead trees, and what would happen when the readily available supplies of dead trees dwindled. [...] The widespread scale and severity of the attack meant that the forest’s ability to uptake carbon had been reduced, while future GHG emissions would result as the carbon stored in the decaying trees was released.30 The article’s lead author, Werner Kurz of the Canadian Forest Service, argued that given the extent of the massive beetle attack some usage of a portion of the dead trees for energy pur- [...] In 2007, Canada’s in 2007, Canada’s westernmost province produced 900,000 tonnes of wood pellets, most of which went to westernmost province the EU, where BC has a 16 per cent share of the pellet market.34 But the international trade produced 900,000 was not without its environmental costs, not the least being the fuel and associated GHGs tonnes of wood pellets, required to move that mass of pelle
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Authors

Parfitt, Ben

ISBN
9781897569573
Pages
61
Published in
Canada

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