PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 31, 2024
Looking to build markets and supply chains for climate-friendly forest products, the Biden administration just announced $418,420 for Maine’s Timber HP GO Lab to produce sustainable wood insulation. And the USDA’s Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities is aiming even higher, working with the New England Forestry Foundation to help the first commercial landowners pilot climate-smart forestry management on their working lands. Six landowners will receive incentives that support a range of climate-smart forestry practices designed to to show how owners of working lands can increase carbon storage while continuing to harvest climate-smart wood products and maintain revenues. ~ Andrea Colnes, New England Forestry Foundation