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'Wood vaulting': A simple climate solution you’ve probably never heard of

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'Wood vaulting': A simple climate solution you’ve probably never heard of

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Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 4 months ago

Forests in the West are overgrown and full of flammable vegetation, fueling wildfires and carbon emissions. Could burying it solve the problem?

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100s or 1000s of years of store CO2? I’m not a soil engineer but, this sounds dubious to me.
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  In much of the western US, subterranean termites will eat buried wood.

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