Going green with Texas forests?

I’m OK with the general idea of giving Texas foresters CO2 emissions credits, but, per the story, I am worried about this promoting over-cutting forests, and also worried about giving biomass a carbon blank check.

Beyond that, Burl Carraway, head of sustainable forestry for the Texas Forest Service, notes that burning wood chips for electricity is bottom of the barrel for getting more money out of forests, too.

That said, none of this will help Texas foresters hurt by the bursting of the national housing bubble. While that bubble hasn’t exploded in Texas the way it has in the triangle of SoCal-Phoenix-Las Vegas, nonetheless, housing has slowed enough to be a problem.

And, if we really want to be green, we’d be building smaller houses, which would mean less forest cutting anyway.