Bob Leverett, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2017 file photo, the full moon sets behind Hunt Mountain on a privately owned tract of land surrounded by land that now comprises the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument near Patten, Maine. A report released Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, by the Harvard Forest, a research institute of Harvard University, says New England has been losing forestland to development at a rate of 65 acres per day — a loss that comes at a time when public funding for preservation of open land, both state and federal, has also been on the decline in all six states. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Guest column by William R. Moomaw, Bob Leverett, Robert A. Jonas and Monica Jakuc Leverett: How to fight climate change? Save existing forests

by William R. Moomaw, Bob Leverett, Robert A. Jonas and Monica Jakuc Leverett July 24, 2019

On July 5, the Gazette published an Associated Press article, “How to fight climate change? Plant many trees.”Swiss scientists publishing in the journal “Science” calculated that “over the decades, those new trees could suck up … about as much…

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Guest column by William R. Moomaw, Bob Leverett, Robert A. Jonas and Monica Jakuc Leverett: How to fight climate change? Save existing forests

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