Landowners shape forests for maximum carbon storage

Landowners shape forests for maximum carbon storage

Editor’s Note: This story is part three in a series about Maine’s changing forests. Steve Tatko squatted next to the cut end of a red spruce trunk lying in a stack with other felled trees. Eight inches in diameter, its bark was a deep red-brown. Its center held tiny rings of varying widths, pale yellow alternating with a rich sienna. Tatko pointed to some narrow rings only a half inch from the center.  “It’s possible this tree was seventy-five y…