03-08-2008, 09:15 AM
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Originally posted by JWFITZ
...I'm surprised no one has jumped to hold my feet to the fire yet, and someone should, so I'll do it myself in the spirit of not being a hypocrite. Where do you get off, Jay, telling people not to cut trees when you work primarily in wood? Huh? Well, that's a fair question...
Fitz -
I don't have much problem with cutting down of invasive trees at all.
...surveys of rain forests carpeting the volcanoes Mauna Kea and Kilauea indicate that the native trees are thinning out as invasive trees such as tropical ash and firtree encroach on their habitat......
....... invasive species change the amount of carbon stored in ecosystems [rather than in our atmosphere]
...In other words, more carbon dioxide—a major greenhouse gas—could end up in the atmosphere instead of stored in the forests' natural "sink."
From this March 3, 2008 National Geographic article.
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