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Working Woodlands for Carbon and Cash
When it comes to fighting climate disruption, trees are some of the most effective front line soldiers.
Trees also help clean the air and water. Now a forest management program in Pennsylvania is rewarding landowners for the ecological benefits of their trees.
William Kando inherited fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls from his father (Photo: Daniel Estrin)
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.