MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • September 26, 2021
Planting more trees or managing a forest more intensively can increase carbon storage, sequestering more of a damaging greenhouse gas. That added storage has value in the increasingly urgent fight to slow climate change. To recognize its worth, financial markets have been formed to pay woodland owners who agree to long-term measures to lock up more carbon. More than 500,000 acres of Maine woodland are involved in 15 separate carbon offset projects, according to Bluesource LLC, a U.S. and Canadian company that manages carbon transactions.