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"Forests in the Interior West could soon flip from carbon sink to carbon source, forest experts say. The region's forests once absorbed and stored more carbon from the atmosphere than they released. But huge conflagrations -- like the 138,000-acre Hayman Fire in Colorado in 2002 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, which scorched 1.2 million acres -- combined with a series of severe bark beetle infestations and disease outbreaks, have left large swaths of dead, decomposing trees in almost every major Western forest. Those dead trees are releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide, turning the region into a net emitter of carbon rather than a CO2 sponge."

Farmers in India are being paid by BioCarbon Fund to plant trees in over 4000 hectares. These trees are being planted to offset the 839,582 tons of carbon dioxide. One of the conditions the landowners must meet is the tree density must be no less than 1100 plants per hectare. Article published on September, 13th 2011 on indiatogether.org