It’s also an economic solution that keeps money flowing to the land’s owner without requiring them to cut down any trees.This climate fix could be a $190 billion market by the end of this decade

Environmentalists are pushing policymakers to figure out how to lease and manage public lands to industries looking to buy carbon credits. But litigation from the timber industry over how forests should be used is stalling a large part of this effort

https://crosscut.com/environment/2023/08/are-wa-forests-worth-more-carbon-sponges-or-timber-harvests

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