![]() This was supposed to be a showcase for Seattle-based Green Diamond’s forestry strategy for a warming world. The massive Bootleg Fire destroyed trees in the Klamath Basin, including portions of two carbon offset projects covering 570,000 acres and operated by Green Diamond. Today, June 29, 2023, only blackened trees remain. Justin Kostick, forest manager for the Green Diamond timber company, shows a cellphone photo shot when this stretch of trees was burned during the Bootleg Fire in 2021. “As much as I’ve come up here in the last two years … it never feels good,” Kostick said. Since then, he has returned to the burn zone again and again to supervise the planting of some 4.2 million new seedlings. He spent days and nights on fire lines in a largely unsuccessful effort to slow Bootleg’s advance through the company’s Klamath Basin lands. They were killed by the fierce heat of the Bootleg Fire, which raged through here in July 2021, sending up huge pyrocumulus clouds of smoke and ash some 30,000 feet into the earth’s atmosphere - generating their own thunderstorms.įor Justin Kostick, forestry manager for the Green Diamond timber company, this bleak landscape has become a familiar, depressing sight. ![]() Most stand erect, a few so bowed that their tops curl down to touch the ground. Today, these trees are charred black snags that bake in the summer sun.
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