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Preserving Forests and Business

Scientific American - Posted: October 14th, 2008, 1:00am EDT

pAs forest landowners shift their attention away from logging toward more lucrative--and destructive--uses such as suburban development, forest conservation is more crucial than ever. Historically, protecting woodlands has been a slow and difficult process: conservationists raised large sums of money, bought big tracts, and put them into public ownership with strict rules against intrusions. Recently, however, a handful of organizations have found an easier way: buy the land with loans and repay them by turning the forest into a nonprofit business./p a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=preserving-forests-and-business[More]/a

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