Carbon Offsets Provide Unique New Option for Landowners

Georgia company strives to provide trees with a way to earn their keepStamford, CT – March 1, 2011  - It is a common sight across this country, bulldozers felling trees making way for new subdivisions and shopping malls, often the property becoming available because it was the only financially viable option for the original landowner.   In Georgia, however, Valley Wood Inc. hopes to change all that by giving landowners the option of forest sequestration.  Richard Ramey, owner of Valley Wood Inc., manages “tree plantations” or carbon offset farms, which allow the land to generate income