Asa Wahlquist; 5/9/08
Standing in drought-ravaged land where water is an obsession, Martin Crevatin admires a four-year-old stand of healthy trees thriving against the odds. Despite four very dry years, the young trees are growing from strength to strength, and with them is flourishing one of the nation’s largest schemes for storing carbon in plants. The stand of mallees at Coolamon near Wagga Wagga is in one of the plantations run by CO2 Group, which plants mallee trees and trades the credits for the carbon they sequester. The company mostly plants blue-leaved mallee and york gum. Mr Crevatin is optimistic the trees will survive any changes the climate might throw at them.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24296261-5013404,00.html
Tags: Australia, Environment