UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences assistant professor Indroneil Ganguly was recently featured in a South Sound Business story about how working forests help inform scientists about climate change.

The story detailed how Ganguly led research, supported by the Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA), that highlighted that after trees have been harvested and turned into finished products (like lumber and furniture), wood products keep a large proportion of the tree carbon. That means that the finished wood products play an important role in fighting climate change, something that has been overlooked and ignored in climate mitigation assessments.

“When we look at the beneficial aspect of keeping the carbon sequestered in a functional form in the economy rather than in the atmosphere, the role of wood products is as big as the role of the standing biomass,” Ganguly told South Sound Business.

Read the full story here.