Plans to quadruple logging in US’s most popular forest – months after Biden’s Cop26 reforestation pledge
A federal blueprint for the long-term future of America’s most popular national forest proposes cutting down more trees and reducing protections of old-growth areas, critical “carbon sinks” in battling the climate crisis.
Logging would be set to quadruple in North Carolina’s Pisgah-Nantahala National Forest with more than half of the public land - half a million acres - opened up, environmentalists have warned.
https://www-independent-co-uk.cdn.a...-deforestation-carbon-biden-b1999661.html?amp
A federal blueprint for the long-term future of America’s most popular national forest proposes cutting down more trees and reducing protections of old-growth areas, critical “carbon sinks” in battling the climate crisis.
Logging would be set to quadruple in North Carolina’s Pisgah-Nantahala National Forest with more than half of the public land - half a million acres - opened up, environmentalists have warned.
https://www-independent-co-uk.cdn.a...-deforestation-carbon-biden-b1999661.html?amp
