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High Wood Product Output Doesn’t Correlate to Higher Carbon Emissions According to US Forest Service Research

May 19, 2011 Robert Hudson Westover, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Forest Service

A study by researchers at the U.S. Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory shows that the lowest rates of deforestation and forest carbon emissions occur in global regions with the highest rates of forest product output. Counter intuitively global regions with the highest rates of deforestation...

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