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The Great Big Leaf Maple Syrup Experiment – update 1

February 19, 2014

When you are starting a feasibility experiment, you don’t want to go whole-hog.  The vendors that cater to the maple syrup crowd sort of assume you’re working at a serious production level.  We really didn’t need 100 spiles, for instance.  So where do you go when you don’t know where to go to shop for […]

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Webinar Report: California’s Carbon Market – Panacea or Pandora’s box for landowners?

April 15, 2013

The American Tree Farm System hosted a webinar on the California Carbon Market and its associated Forest Project Protocol.  The talk was presented by Charles Kerchner who works for Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, developing offset projects based on the protocol. The projects Mr. Kerchner discussed were implemented in the northeast (Maine, Vermont, and often involved […]

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