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Dear Sir,

Clearcutting trees is destructive to biological systems and alters
water resources and characteristics. It is destroying one part of
nature to put in balance another part of nature a dichotomy that
segments the intended goal of a sustainable world.
Allowing an owner to clearcut and then to receive compensation to
repair the damage will incentives the damaging practice. 

A two ounce tree seedling cannot possibly be equal in sequestering
the same amount of CO2 per year as a mature multi ton giant old
specimen. It is a fallacy to expect otherwise and not a real cap
and trade offset.

The even aged tree stands are more susceptible to forest fires than
mixed aged stands of trees putting this protocol at risk of
unwittingly adding to green house gases. 

A program for allowing the clearcutting of trees and then
compensating and planting seedlings will not capture global warming
gasses and should be eliminated from the Protocol.

Mr. & Mrs. John Stephens
348 Minahen St.
Napa, CA 94559