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Is it? The first study I found showed some extra carbon storage, but the 95 CI includes 0 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339956316_The_lifecycle_of_w

• greenie_beans 4y ago
  that's interesting, i'll take a deeper look later. if only i had bookmarked all the studies i've come across. i have an interest in woodland so i've been curious to learn about this and my (layperson) takeway is that logging adds a lot of carbon to the atmosphere. also, the soil stores a lot of carbon, and when you log trees, you degrade the soil and cause loss of stored carbon. (but i'm far from a scientist, just waiting for somebody who knows what they're talking about to chime in.)
  • X6S1x6Okd1st 4y ago
    Looking further it seems like there's a lot of logging practices that are worse than performing no action (assuming that the biomass provided doesn't offset something else, e.g. prevents coal from being burnt)