MAINE PUBLIC • February 8, 2021
A new state task force will convene for the first time on Friday to look for ways that the state’s 86,000 woodland owners can help the state meet its goal of carbon neutrality by 2045. Tom Doak, executive director of the Maine Woodland Owners Association, says efforts to preserve working forests would get a boost if small- and medium-size land owners could benefit from carbon market programs, under which landowners are compensated for retaining a certain level of carbon locked away inside the trees, and cut lumber.