Colorado forests emit more carbon than they take in. The reason? Wildfires, pests, and disease. All made worse by climate change. The findings come from Colorado State University.
“There have been previous estimates done of Colorado's forest and they have been right around that spot of it being either a sink or a source. So it was a bit of an open question going through this (study) and right up until the end I was curious to see which side it would come out on,” Tony Vorster of the Natural Resource Ecology Lab at CSU said. “And it did come out that our forests have been a source of carbon.”
Vorster, the lead researcher of the study, spoke with Senior Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner.
