Many of these US trees are destined to be turned into small pellets for the biomass industry. At wood pellet mills, wood is chipped, dried, ground and compressed into uniform, easily storable pellets. They’re then shipped mainly to the UK, where they’re burned for energy. Most forest land in North Carolina is privately owned, in holdings that can be as small as one acre. Small forest owners here include a number of third-generation African Americans whose ancestors moved north and west as part of the Great Migration leaving the cropland to turn back into forest. Should the land owners be paid to keep the forests for the sake of global climate ?

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