North Carolina has 19 million acres of forest, which store nearly 1.3 trillion tons of carbon. While this sounds impressive, logging destroys forest carbon in North Carolina each year. Logging is third in the state’s carbon emissions, behind electricity and transportation. Logging degrades our carbon stores, forest quality, and resilience to future natural disasters. Yet, the true costs of logging hide in forest “net growth” – that a forest is growing more than it’s cut. Dogwood Alliance have put together a two-part report which explores these issues in more depth (Part 1: Forest Carbon Accounting; Part 2: Climate Impacts and Smart Solutions) This is Part 2 of the report.
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