Michigan to Protect its Forests for Carbon Offsets

Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources recently announced it would be limiting logging in the state’s Lower Peninsula in order to utilize the forest for carbon offsets. The Pigeon River Country State Forest typically brings in money from oil and gas leases, timber sales, hunting licenses, and camping fees, but will now be working to conserve the red pine, aspen, and elk trees growing there for a different kind of revenue.