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The Nature Conservancy makes a bet on carbon

Lumber, as any tree and forest lover can tell you, isn’t the only valuable thing forests produce. They buffer noise, provide habitat for other animals, filter water, create oxygen, curb erosion, cool the earth, provide beauty, allow us to reconnect with the natural world. The list goes on. But, until now, virtually the only forest…

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Carbon offsets: A new forest ‘product’?

By Joe Rankin Forests for Maine’s Future writer Over the centuries the only way to make money if you owned a woodland was cut down the trees so they could be sold and turned into framing timbers, barrel staves, chariots, ship masts, charcoal, furniture, plywood or any of a gazillion and one other things. Now…