Should the U.S. keep old trees around to store carbon or cut them down? It’s a heated debate
Deep in northern Michigan’s Huron-Manistee National Forest, the air reverberates with the sound of a tree harvester picking up fully grown jack-pines out of the ground like toothpicks. Once the trees are lifted, the machine, known as a forwarder, slices the tree into logs in less than a minute. “It cuts the trees to a…
