Posted on 25/11/05
What's a boreal forest really worth?
VANCOUVER -- How much is a forest worth if it's simply left standing instead of being logged and sent to a mill?That question, in simple terms, is what researchers from the Pembina Institute set out to answer in a two-year study that calculated for the first time the "natural capital" contained in Canada's boreal forest ecosystem.
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