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Sara Velazquez and her husband bought the 55 acres behind their rural Pennsylvania home because they wanted a "nice, healthy oak forest." But after the pandemic forced them out of work, they weren't sure how to pay taxes on the land. Now a 20-year contract with the nonprofit American Forest Foundation’s Family Forest Carbon Program is helping them -- and other private landowners like them -- access carbon markets. Their trees will store a measured amount of carbon for at least two decades. The credits will help corporations achieve their "net zero" emissions goals while forest owners receive cash. For Raul Chiesa and Janet Sredy's Beckets Run Woodlands, carbon credits let them better manage the family-owned 110 acres. The recently passed climate legislation provides $450 million to push private landowners toward forest management practices that benefit the climate.
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