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In response to a recent letter to the editor regarding reducing carbon dioxide emissions, the author has it wrong. It’s not an either/or situation. We need to use all the tools we have to fight climate change, such as EVs, forest conservation and in Snohomish County, adoption of Urban Tree Canopy policies as part of the 2024 Comprehensive Plan Update
The Snohomish Chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) applauds the recent letter by Kate Lunceford written in support of Senate Bill 5688, which has as one of its goals to encourage the sequestration of carbon from our atmosphere.
State Rep. Sam Low, R-Lake Stevens, said in his recent commentary (“State needs lawmakers’ oversight on public lands’ use,” The Herald, Feb. 11) that State Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz’s plans “would change course in favor of short-sighted policies that threaten jobs, education and community services.” But there are many misconceptions around carbon sequestration. Senate Bill 5688 would allow the Department of Natural Resources to increase the acreage of working forests in Washington and the money earned for schools and other beneficiaries.
A recent story in Cascadia Daily News, “Whatcom’s ‘Box of Rain’ forest may be logged,” suggests that the 25 to 30 percent of trees in the forest knocked down by wind should be dragged out of this diverse mature forest with ground-smashing machinery to make logs so they don’t emit carbon.