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We will have to pay the trees to stop growing!



You joke, but the timber market is so oversaturated and the price so low that getting paid not to cut trees for lumber is a real outcome.

Rather than clear timber and plant new trees, you can get paid for the carbon they sequester: https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-carbon-market-pays-southern...




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