Silvaculture Day

Today was Silvaculture Day at the Shirleywood Forest on Garbin Moraine. It was time again to remove lower branches on the red pines so any fires caused by global warming would hopefully slow down before they got to the manor. The picture above is of the branches lined up to march down to the bonfire in the valley below the manor. (note to DNR: we won't actually burn the branches until there is enough snow on the ground so you don't need to send any enforcers over). TWW recently read in the local paper about the manager of a new wood pellet plant saying burning wood pellets is carbon neutral. This must mean while the smoke from burning pellets (or these branches) will put CO2 into the air, the CO2 would have gone into the air anyway as the trees the pellets came from (or these branches) rotted away. Either way CO2 goes into the air and warms the planet. This brings up a good question to ask your tree hugger friends: Since trees pollute as they decompose shouldn't we stop planting new trees and also work for ways to prevent living trees from reproducing and creating even more carbon to put into the air and warm the planet?