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Its time to get creative in timber counties: the world is looking for carbon sinks to soak up all the carbondioxide we produce. Join the growing carbon market and get paid for growing trees and preserving forests, NOT for cutting them. OECD countries have a plan to pay folks in the tropics to preserve the Amazon forest, for instance. Why not sell Oregon forests as carbon sinks?

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