TIMES RECORD • September 28, 2022
Ninety percent of Maine is forested land, which makes us the state with the largest carbon-storage service in New England. One important strategy in reducing the effects of climate warming is to store carbon in soils, trees and perennial agricultural crops. Maine already stores about 60% of the carbon it emits in our young forests. Maine has the potential to increase this storage capacity by providing incentives to forest companies to improve their forest practices. Both large-scale agriculture and forestry can commit to management practices that increase organic matter in soils, called carbon sequestration. ~ Nancy Chandler