Burying trees to save forests?

A company called Mast Reforestation has found a way to pay for replanting forests that burned in severe wildfires. After a bad fire, dead trees left standing are both a fire hazard and a huge cleanup cost, and land managers often can't afford to clear the land and plant new trees. There's also a shortage of conifer seeds needed to regrow these forests.

Mast's approach: bury the fire-killed trees deep underground in sealed clay vaults with no oxygen, which locks away the carbon in that wood for good. Because this keeps carbon out of the atmosphere, it generates carbon credits the company can sell. That money then funds the expensive work of clearing burned land and hand-planting new, fire-resistant forests.

This is a podcast episode about the company's founder and strategy, not a program homeowners can sign up for. It doesn't involve home energy upgrades, rebates, or anything that affects your house directly. It's worth knowing about mainly because it's a different way of dealing with the aftermath of Western wildfires, tying forest recovery to the carbon credit market instead of relying on government funding alone.