March marks 6 months after Hurricane Helene caused widespread damage to forests in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, and beyond. Our Tennessee team joined foresters in the Clinch Valley of Virginia and spent time in the woods assessing the damage from the storm to a carbon project in the area. With the loss of trees, there is a loss of the carbon stored in that timber and the future carbon that the tree would sequester. We collected data on the volume of downed timber, which will inform us on how best to manage the remaining standing trees for the health of the woodlands in the future🌳 .
