The One Trillion Trees Project and Increasing US Forest Cover

RFF Issue Brief by Dave Wear is cited extensively in BBN Times article on the One Trillion Trees Project.

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May 12, 2020

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BBN Times

RFF Issue Brief by Dave Wear cited extensively in BBN Times article on the One Trillion Trees Project.

“David Wear has written a short overview 'Tree Planting as Climate Policy' for Resources for the Future (May 2020, RFF Issue Brief 20-07). Wear offers a thoughtful discussion of US forest patterns in recent decades--and what policies are most likely to increase the number of trees substantially. He also makes a case that they way to get more trees planted may be demand-side policies to find more uses for wood, not supply-side policies to put more acorns in the ground.”

Read the full article here | This article was originally published in Conversable Economics

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David N. Wear

Nonresident Senior Fellow; Director, Land Use, Forestry, and Agriculture Program

David Wear is a nonresident senior fellow and the director of the Land Use, Forestry, and Agriculture Program at RFF.

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