A study across 7.6 million acres of mostly private land suggests that if commercial foresters in Maine adopted strategies like increased planting and selective harvesting, they could help increase carbon storage by at least 20% over the next 60 years.
With more than 800,000 acres, Seven Islands is one of the largest landowners in Maine. And for decades, the family-owned company has been independently certified in"sustainable forestry" a management strategy that considers biodiversity, water, soil and other factors before deciding which trees should be cut and which should be left to grow.
"Unless you maintain harvest there's the potential for there to really be no benefits to the atmosphere," said Tom Walker, a natural resources economist and project coordinator. The study's authors also say undertaking these improvements could be done at relatively low cost compared to other ways of mitigating climate change. The research comes as demand from companies looking to offset their carbon emissions through forest carbon removal projects increased four-fold between 2020 and 2021. Alec Giffen of the New England Forestry Foundation said there are other reasons to be encouraged by the findings.
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