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  • Despite promise to protect old forests, Biden administration moves to cut them down

    April Ehrlich and Tony Schick, OPB, McKenzie Funk, Propublica|Dec 5, 2024

    On Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden stood among cherry blossoms and towering Douglas firs in a Seattle park to declare the importance of big, old trees. “There used to be a hell of a lot more forests like this,” he said, calling them “our planet’s lungs” and extolling their power to fight climate change. The amount of carbon trees suck out of the air increases dramatically with age, making older trees especially important. These trees are also rare: Less than 10% of forests in the lower...