Forestry company looking at reducing carbon
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Forestry Tasmania is developing projects to try to store more carbon emissions.
The Managing Director, Bob Gordon, says the Garnaut report clearly identifies forests as playing an important role in capturing large amounts of carbon.
Mr Gordon says Forestry Tasmania wants to make a bigger contribution by working with other organisations to reafforest degraded land.
"We're looking at doing a couple of things," he said.
"The first is looking at whether we can find some degraded land to put plantations on for the purpose of capturing carbon.
"Those plantations will be grown for solid wood products which has the double benefit of not only capturing carbon for the atmosphere but permanently storing that as wood products," Mr Gordon said.
