It Is Best To Not Pick Wild Leeks

From TheGlobeAndMail: Locavores, beware

When you pick a ramp, you take the entire plant, including the bulb. Once the bulb is gone, there is nothing left of the plant; it will not grow back the next year. The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority considers it to be "a species of conservation concern." And eating a nice sized bulb could be the equivalent of dining on an old-growth cedar. "It's a really, really, slow-growth plant. A bulb could be 18 to 20 years old,"

Old Growth News

Via Treehugger - Old-Growth Forests in New York State Protected Under New Legislation

Via Discover - Want to Capture Carbon? Protect Old Trees

The new study suggests that protecting old growth forests may be just as important as planting new trees in efforts to reduce carbon dioxide levels and fight global warming.

Testing Forest Diversity As A Carbon Sink

Near Pellston, OSU and U of M researchers are slowly killing aspen trees in the hope they'll be replaced by maple, beech, oak, and pine. See:
U-M scientists remove thousands of aspens to glimpse forest's future (includes video)

The UMBS Forest Carbon Cycle Research Program

Aspen trees starved in global warming experiment

"We've been managing forests for lumber or pulp, or perhaps as habitat for deer or quail," said project leader Peter Curtis, an Ohio State University forest ecologist. "Many economists think that managing them for carbon will be a fact of life in the not-too-distant future."

I wonder why they didn't burn the forest in order to both clean the forest slate and create biochar which acts as a second carbon sink to the growing trees?