Carbon Storage Beats Biomass For Fighting Climate Change

Oregon Public Broadcasting
BY ROB MANNING
Portland, OR July 9, 2009 8:58 a.m.

Oregon’s Republican representative Greg Walden has joined Oregon’s rookie Democrat, Kurt Schrader, to create a national caucus on forestry issues. Walden issued an audio statement, outlining policies he’d like to see the caucus work on.

Greg Walden: “We don’t have to have these catastrophic fires that destroy our watersheds. We ought to be able to use the biomass and the burned trees for a productive purpose.”

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