tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post557816193953674147..comments2024-03-28T04:04:03.006-07:00Comments on Paying attention: Paying companies not to cut down treesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-85103992740263596152010-01-11T10:28:42.721-08:002010-01-11T10:28:42.721-08:00Looking at it it another way, a typical highway lo...Looking at it it another way, a typical highway logging truck hauls 30-40 cubic metres of logs. It would be a very very very large cedar tree indeed to be the equivalent of 11-15 logging truck loads; I would suggest a world record tree! <br /><br />Regardless of how big either of us think a cedar tree can get, the reality is that your average red cedar tree, even if an old one, is much smaller and no one should be thinking they are going to get thousands or even hundreds of dollars for every tree they don't cut.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-20202545112159135022010-01-06T17:11:32.550-08:002010-01-06T17:11:32.550-08:00Hey anon, thanks for the post.
My numbers were ro...Hey anon, thanks for the post. <br />My numbers were rough, for sure. I checked more and found a wood volume of 450 cubic metres was not extreme for an old cedar. Using your assumptions, that's about $9,000 in carbon credits at current values. Does that seem reasonable to you?<br /><br />cubic metres of wood volume is not extreme.paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11003637352818760817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400574.post-20705561555694849872010-01-06T12:12:12.476-08:002010-01-06T12:12:12.476-08:00The cedar tree math is off by at least a factor of...The cedar tree math is off by at least a factor of 10. A tree 3m in diameter at the stump and 40m tall would amount to about 100 m3 above ground. In very rough terms a m3 of wood is equivalent to about 1 tonne of CO2 equivalent (less for cedar which is less dense than most others). So you might get $1500 if you could guarantee that nothing will happen to the tree in the next one hundred years. (Note that 100 m3 of average quality wood could generate > $30,000 in forest products some of which continue to store the carbon and substitute for fossil-fuel-intensive buidling products. Dig around for some interesting stuff on substitution and other benefits of wood at www.naturallywood.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com