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    We cannot and should not try to CLEARCUT OUR WAY OUT OF CLIMATE
CHANGE.We should adopt only programs that will most reliably assure
actual sequestration and avoid those that ignore carbon impacts of
entire components of the activity seeking to be called an “offset”
such as clearcuts.  We should particularly avoid subsidizing
clearcuts because they are extremely difficult to assure
additionality, and they also pose big environmental risks
 California’s working timberlands are also important for the
ecological services they provide, not only for nature, habitat and
wildlife, but for people too.  Our forests are the lungs of the
earth that purify our air.  Our forests control sedimentation and
temperature of the waters we drink, and on which our salmon depend
for reproduction.  Even aged, clearcut forests are less resilient,
more prone to fire and disease, and provide less diversity of
habitat for the species on which nature and Californians depend.