Hi Joe

> The carbon uptake from tree seed germination and 
> growing to saplings can potentially lock up carbon for
> several hundred years, as exampled by the massive
> estimated 200 plus year old pollinator pollinated oak
> trees out back the house.

Unfortunately the little acorns from which those oak trees grew, like the seeds of most temperate trees, were pollinated by a gust of wind.

all the best

Gavin

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