Factoid/2018/03/20
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Replanting Post Wildfire is Critical for Soil and Forest Health
- "Replanting trees after events like last year’s catastrophic Western wildfires not only is critical to forest recovery, but could actually help soils take up more carbon from the atmosphere than if the burned areas were just left idle or cultivated...The researchers found that in the next 100 years, already existing reforestation in the country could help topsoil absorb an additional 2 billion tons of carbon, which is about 1 percent of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions."- Excerpt from Argonne National Laboratory. Healthy soils and forests promote better water quality at the coast.
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