Dr. Ken Byrne:

Our forests are on a trajectory to be a source because of the so-called legacy issues. One of the contributing factors in that regard is that because afforestation compensates for removals. When the afforestation rate falls and removals remain the same, one moves towards being a source. We are not even in a gain situation. If we were afforesting, we would just be compensating for our losses. We would need to have a very high value to get it beyond the legacy issue in this regard. As other speakers have been saying, it is important to consider everything at a landscape level. The point made by Dr. Moran in that regard is really good. We have to think about specific soil, climatic and land use conditions and the optimum for them across all land use.