Fire-hit timber towns should become carbon sinks: expert

Katie Burgess
Updated January 20 2020 - 7:08am, first published January 19 2020 - 6:30am
Should this be the start of the transition from logging? Photo: Sylvia Liber
Should this be the start of the transition from logging? Photo: Sylvia Liber

Timber towns ravaged by bushfires burning in south-eastern NSW and Victoria should become carbon sinks, instead of returning to logging operations, a Canberra academic has argued.

Katie Burgess

Katie Burgess

Federal politics reporter

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