a) Article talks about REforestation: re-growing a forest where there once was one, but currently not. Obviously, growing a new forest means carbon storage. b

a) Article talks about REforestation: re-growing a forest where there once was one, but currently not. Obviously, growing a new forest means carbon storage. b) A good % of carbon gets stored in the soil in various ways. Some of that for a long time (if not permanent). c) People have cut down a lot of forest over time. So restoring that would equate to a massive amount of carbon taken out of the atmosphere & stored in plant matter. Regardless of where it came from. More plant matter = less CO2 in atmosphere. Selectively harvesting trees may improve upon that. But it's optional.