SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the following appointments: Jamie L. Crook, 44, of Berkeley, has been appointed Chief Counsel at the Civil…
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by Contributor on Saturday January 23 2021
Photo from 100 Acre Wood near Rossland, by Sara Golling
Researchers say proforestation policies are the fastest and most effective way to draw excess CO2 out of the atmosphere.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, Mass. Bob Leverett walked away from the trunk, looking up through the canopy, trying to get eyes on the crown.
He crushed the thick pine needle duff with each step, while a light drizzle tapped on the leaves above him, and birds called from a distance. Then he saw it, the top of the tree, and measured its height with a small instrument he raised to his eye. He would combine this measurement with others to calculate the mass of the tree, a monolithic white pine in western Massachusetts. Once he found the mass, he could approximate how much carbon it contained, carbon the tree had been pulling out of the atmosphere, in the form of carbon dioxide, for well over 100 years.