Working Woodlands for Carbon and Cash

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Nearly three-quarters of Pennsylvania’s woodlands are still in private hands. As Ann Murray reports, the Nature Conservancy has helped develop a program to persuade land-owners to preserve forests by rewarding them for the carbon the trees sequester.

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