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Why do you have to bury them? Can’t you just let the logs sit on the forest floor?
by parpfish 2y ago
Why do you have to bury them? Can’t you just let the logs sit on the forest floor?
- triceratops 2y agoDecomposition returns carbon dioxide to the air. Or worse, methane, if there isn't enough oxygen.
- parpfish 2y agoDon’t things decompose underground as well?
- triceratops 2y agoThe carbon stays underground.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoThey release their carbon as they rot or otherwise consumed. That's why the article talks about wood in cold streams, which rots very slowly.
- myfonj 2y agoIn the long term they will decompose and return vast majority of its carbon back into atmosphere. Blame fungi and bacteria.