Historically, New England and New York were carbon sources due to extensive forest clearing for development and agriculture. More carbon dioxide was released into the atmosphere than was captured by the landscape. Over the past 150 years, however, these regions have become carbon sinks as abandoned lands return to forest. This means the forest is now storing more carbon than it is releasing. The Harvard Forest Hemlock Removal Experiment (HF-HeRe), initiated in 2003 in response to the invasive insect pest Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) threatening eastern U.S. hemlock forests, aims to study the long-term effects of hemlock tree loss on carbon storage in New England forests. This long-term study consists of four treatments: girdled trees mimicking HWA-induced mortality, hemlock and hardwood controls, and a logging treatment that emulates timber harvest that many landowners conduct when faced with HWA. I expect the logged plots to have the highest rate of sequestration because the rapid clearing of trees allows for fast growing, early successional trees to grow more quickly than in the girdled treatments. The girdled treatments with standing, dead trees likely shade out seedlings until the trees fall. I also expect that slow growing tree species, that typically grow to larger diameters, will store the most carbon. I tested these hypotheses with data collected through the fieldwork involving tree diameter measurements and applying allometric equations to estimate carbon storage of the trees. I analyzed data from tree censuses, conducted every five years from 2004-2024, and explored spatial mapping. This long term research is important because it allows investigation into the recovery of carbon sinks following a disturbance, and demonstrates how a forest's capacity to sequester and store carbon changes over time. Research on forest carbon sinks provides valuable insight into how the land should be managed before, during, and after a disturbance event if a primary goal is increasing carbon storage and protecting carbon sinks.