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by sp332 1748 days ago
Burying it and letting it rot would release the carbon. Logging it and turning it into lumber delays that process a lot longer.
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There's research into this. Release to atmosphere from buried logs is minimal if done with that aim in mind: https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1750-0...

It's not onerous either, a hectare of trees can be sequestered in a 25m2 pit.

Alternatively you can biochar it and then interr, but more labour and time intensive with the extra steps.

The charcoal will contain at most half of the carbon, the other half goes up in smoke. You could do cogeneration with that but now you need a plant nearby or heavy transportation which likely won’t be carbon negative. And the more you process it the more extractive the process is, and the we need something that isn’t extractive.