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by lopmotr 2546 days ago
Turns out it's not so simple:

Young trees sequester carbon faster: https://psmag.com/environment/young-trees-suck-up-more-carbo...

Old trees sequester carbon faster: https://theconversation.com/big-old-trees-grow-faster-making...

Though when you consider forestry has the goal of producing sequestered carbon (wood), you would think they'd find a fast way to do that. In my country, commercial forestry is done with non-native species that are planted by the forest owners and obviously must be replanted for them to keep operating. They harvest them after about 20 years of growth. I guess that's the age when further growth would be too slow to be economical.