Biochar Is ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ for Sequestering Carbon and Combating Climate Change

By Lindsey Byman

WASHINGTON – Since David Laird was young, the “lush, green forests” of the western United States meant an annual summer trip to hike, camp and fish. But the last time Laird was in Wyoming’s Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, a bark beetle had ravaged an estimated two-thirds of the forest’s lodgepole pines.