A long-term forest experiment, initiated 30 years ago and subsequently neglected, has yielded unexpected results.

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This is about a long-term forestry experiment in Australia's mountain ash forests that was initiated in 1987 and then abandoned. When researchers revisited it 30 years later, they found that heavily thinned plots had not only recovered all the carbon lost during harvesting but had also gained additional carbon, and the trees grew unusually large. The results challenge conventional assumptions about the trade-offs between thinning and carbon storage.

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