Emily
Editor, Senior Moderator
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May 2022 | Volume 32, No. 8
A new era for old forests or business as usual at DNR?
Some Friends of Legacy Forests on May 5, 2022
Hilary Franz’s “Carbon Project”
On April 6, the Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands launched an unprecedented carbon leasing project. The first of its kind on state trust lands, this initiative enters ecologically valuable forests into leases to generate revenue for trust land beneficiaries by reserving them for carbon storage uses. Through voluntary carbon markets, this project is intended to generate revenue for trustland beneficiaries without selling forest timber for logging...
May 2022 | Volume 32, No. 8
A new era for old forests or business as usual at DNR?
Some Friends of Legacy Forests on May 5, 2022
On April 6, the Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands launched an unprecedented carbon leasing project. The first of its kind on state trust lands, this initiative enters ecologically valuable forests into leases to generate revenue for trust land beneficiaries by reserving them for carbon storage uses. Through voluntary carbon markets, this project is intended to generate revenue for trustland beneficiaries without selling forest timber for logging...