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More than 50 conservation and climate justice organizations across Northern California, Oregon, and Washington on Wednesday called on policymakers to preserve the region s tens of millions of acres of forest land by adopting a Green New Deal for Pacific Northwest Forests a plan comprised of six pill.
Covering a third of the planet s land surface, forests are massive carbon sinks, absorbing and storing carbon dioxide and keeping it out of the atmosphere where it would contribute to global warming. Only the world s oceans store more carbon. Keeping forests intact has long been considered essential.