Posted on 04/09/2022 10:15:52 PM PDT by MAGA2017
SEATTLE — Washington state has launched a new program to save 10,000 acres of forest land as a carbon reserve.
The Seattle Times reports the state intends to lease the trees as carbon credits to emitters of greenhouse gases that cause global warming. The DNR is partnering with Finite Carbon, a developer and supplier of carbon offsets, which will verify the effectiveness of the offsets.
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.
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This whole carbon reserve/climate change fairy tale is grownups playing pretend. It is silly.
It identifies as a carbon reserve.
They better manage those forests so that the undergrowth does not make it hard to put out forest fires.
Ten thousand acres is NOTHING. This is just a three card monte to bilk the suckers out of their money.
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
Yes.
Lately, the forest fires seem to be picking up on National Parks and Wilderness areas.
I bet these reserves will go down in one big forest fire at once.
I think that’s a square less than 4 miles per side.
everybody knows that you can prevent the air from moving around to other areas...right?....
Yep!
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
Correct!
640 acres per sq. mile.
10,000 divided by 640 = approx. 16 sq. miles = a square four miles by four miles.
Regards,
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.
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