Carbon issue is made up in Washington. Bunch of BS.

Sounds about right.

This whole carbon issue is in fact nothing more than a bunch of made up horse manure. Do a little factual in depth research and you will discover that the amount of CO2 emissions related to humans is an insignificant percentage compared to the overall emissions created by the earth itself. For one small instance, the amount of CO2 emitted from volcanic eruptions in just one year, is greater than all of mankind’s emissions over the past 60-70 years. And that still is like #3 on the natural emmiaions that have been happening since the dawn of time…

That’s what it’s about, paying forest landowners not to cut their trees. A company called Bluesource recently purchased 52,000 acres of industrial timberland in my area. These forest created many jobs in the forest industry in my area. Now , Bluesource press release, stated they are not going to harvest mature trees, and they are going to let a forest be a forest.

No point in having timber land if you can't use the timber.

Mature forests process less carbon dioxide than younger growth forests. These people pushing this nonsense are ignorant and too stupid to care.

No, the people pushing this nonsense are getting rich beyond belief AND restricting the freedom of us peons.
Win:win for them!

tell that to our oregon politicians. they just killed the harvest of thousands of acres of timber -- they didn't even have a carbon credit program--- yet they still expect us to pay taxes on the ground they have made of zero value.

Can you explain this more in depth? They banned logging on private tracts?

The forest practices act that our new york gov.and the big timber companies agreed upon -- without any representation from the small landowner. It changed alot of definitions and rules mostly regarding water and setbacks --- here in western oregon you can't throw a rock without it hitting a ditch, spring, or creek. My 20 acres has about 3 acres of doug fir -- harvested in 91 or so and replanted -- I will not be able to harvest 1 of those acres next time. Dad lives accros the street - he has 40 acres - of which about 6 are doug fir -- he lost about 4 of those 6 under the new regs.

Normally I think 'My Wisconsin Woods' is a very reputable & sound BMP non profit forestry organization. Maybe not anymore based on most of the feedback on this thread about this program they are encouraging. I don't live near the three counties that are applicable so I don't know anyone in this carbon program

There are many ways to manage a forest depending upon what you want form it.
I can see that there are forests that maybe allowing them to continue to mature and never harvest is an acceptable plan.
There were blocks of mature trees long before Europeans settled here and it would be nice to have some blocks of this type of environment around.
That doesn't mean that every block of forest should be treated this way.
It also means that not harvesting trees is not a waste of trees either.

To determine if a block is good for this plan would need to be decided on a case by case basis.
Obviously a block that has just been clear cut would be a poor one to allow to grow into a mature Climax forest. It would take centuries to get to that point.
But one that is pretty much there would be a good candidate to leave depending upon other factors.

All that aside the whole carbon scare is a scam in my mind.
This is just a part of it, I'll bet the landowner will get little from it while the traders and facilitators in carbon will be making the money all off a false assumption, that carbon is bad.

You get pennies and some company gets dollars for using your trees/land for reducing their carbon footprint if its the same program as before by signing you are giving some entity a permanent easement across your property

The parts I read didn't say anything about a permanent easement or that it's just pennies on the dollar but I stopped reading it once I noticed my county isn't involved in the program.

Under my last dying breath, I would go through with a stihl 044 and cut every one on that 3 acres. A couple of years later someone would have great deer hunting.

And can you all guess which politician started this carbon credit crap? Hint- He is from Tennessee. One of the biggest scams ever.
Trees are a natural and RENEWABLE resource. The US has many fine educated and trained foresters that work along side biologists to decide what will benefit wildlife and forests. Then the politicians and tree huggers come along with new laws and lawsuits to put a stop to sensible forestry practices.

It would be interesting to hear from a landowner that's been in the program

https://www.wpr.org/nation-now-has-inventory-old-growth-forests-some-hope-protections-will-follow

The second half of this article tells a lot about the program. After reading this article it seems pretty clear to me that the program wouldn't be for my property.

There is a article in the recent successful farmer magazine that is worth reading.

A goverment scam from the greenies.