Old-growth B.C. forests worth more standing than fallen

Environmental | 206737 hits | Sep 04 11:32 am | Posted by: Hyack

VANCOUVER - Leaving British Columbia's old-growth forests standing may make more economic sense than cutting them down for timber, especially as the province looks to strategies to cut global warming, a new B.C. study suggests.

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by Tracker
Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:44 pm
Come on B.C. do what's right. What Suzuki says must be true. They used a computer model. So...
by bootlegga
Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:48 pm
Not to a lumber company...
by commanderkai
Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:07 pm
Somebody explain to me the cost of carbon. Are they speaking in the terms of the cost putting in place something that can filter the carbon out to the levels of the forest...or like the cost to implement solutions to lower carbon emissions or something?
by Freakinoldguy
Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:54 pm
The report from Simon Fraser University challenges the status quo and uses Ministry of Forest data to show conservation wins out over logging when forests are valued for their role in capturing carbon from the atmosphere, protecting endangered species and providing opportunities for recreation.

Somebody ought to send this to the Brazilian government.

The study backed by three environmental groups - Wilderness Committee, David Suzuki Foundation, and Ecojustice - used computer modeling to look at a variety of conservation and logging scenarios in a large tract of forest near Vancouver.

Of course they probably couldn't care less about 3 left wing radical environmental groups with a suspect computer model that follows their agenda to a "T", than most other rational thinking people.

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