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Richard Casady

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:03:38 -0600, wrote:

Like a hurricane every 100 years or so, it is going to require cleaning
out the deadwood before the forests can grow again.

In a climax forest the grounded is littered with dead trees. It takes
about as long for a tree to rot away as it took to grow it. In the
process all the oxygen produced by its growth will be used up, and all
the carbon fixed by it will go back into the atmosphere.