Recent Findings on Carbon Storage in Old-Growth Forests

Have you ever heard of the Old Grown Forest Network? Their mission is to create a network of forests across the U.S., with one in each county where forests can grow, open for visitors and never logged, and a network of people inspired to protect them.

A long-standing debate over the value of old forests in capturing and storing carbon has prompted a surge of studies published in top science journals during the last decade. Here are seven emerging points that are supported by solid evidence.

1. Trees accumulate carbon as long
   as they live
2. Old-growth forests accumulate and store vast quantities of carbon
3. Old forests accumulate carbon in soils

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