1:30
Speaker G
59:08 - 60:39
"the old growth forests are now have pretty well been determined to be the most important forest to protect through carbon offsets because they, you know, they have sequesters and hold the most carbon and sort of cutting those down would, you know, release more carbon than any other part of the forest."
“the old growth forests are now have pretty well been determined to be the most important forest to protect through carbon offsets because they, you know, they have sequesters and hold the most carbon and sort of cutting those down would, you know, release more carbon than any other part of the forest.”
- Speaker
- Speaker G
- Timestamp
- 59:08 – 60:39
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Haines
- Captured at
- June 3, 2026
From the transcript
You can't presume that because, you know, there wasn't a significant number of people, you know, the breakdown, you know, the 3 to 1 of people who don't Want that to happen would compel you to find, you know, reasons that you would override that and overlook that. The second area of concern that I have is with the carbon offset program where again, this plan doesn't look into the future very well, but is very much a throwback to thinking in the early days of carbon offsets. But now I think, as one of the other folks that testified said, the old growth forests are now have pretty well been determined to be the most important forest to protect through carbon offsets because they, you know, they have sequesters and hold the most carbon and sort of cutting those down would, you know, release more carbon than any other part of the forest. And also the, the most valuable part of the forest to keep in carbon offsets would be the old growth forest because they would pay the most to offset. And anything else is kind of disingenuous.