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September 14, 2020 at 3:59 pm
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Keymaster
Hi Matt
It is completely fine to remove unwanted trees to make space and light for more useful species. Of course it is best if after cut the trees are recycled on site – so either chopped into bits and left on the soil surface, or chipped and used as a mulch. More than half of the carbon in the old trees will be transferred and stored in the soil which will help everything else.
Martin