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Is it? The first study I found showed some extra carbon storage, but the 95 CI includes 0

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339956316_The_lifec...

that's interesting, i'll take a deeper look later. if only i had bookmarked all the studies i've come across. i have an interest in woodland so i've been curious to learn about this and my (layperson) takeway is that logging adds a lot of carbon to the atmosphere. also, the soil stores a lot of carbon, and when you log trees, you degrade the soil and cause loss of stored carbon. (but i'm far from a scientist, just waiting for somebody who knows what they're talking about to chime in.)

Looking further it seems like there's a lot of logging practices that are worse than performing no action (assuming that the biomass provided doesn't offset something else, e.g. prevents coal from being burnt)

Isn't the majority of carbon in a tree coming from the air, not soil? I could imagine it removes nutrients though.

the wood will usually be replanted, if they do it properly. But the basement it stands on- it still cement.