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Maryland Forest Service Endorses Bay Bank
August 1, 2011
The Maryland Forest Service endorsed the Bay Bank in a letter to county and municipal forest conservation planners. Bay Bank’s suite of tools can help local forest conservation banking programs with a number of tools:
- Educational resources for landowners to help them understand forest conservation banking, how they can engage in banking, and costs and benefits of the program;
- Linkages with Maryland Forest Service Qualified Professionals to facilitate the easy development of forest banks;
- Project design and credit calculation tools tiered to county regulations;
- A marketplace where they can post their credits for sale and facilitate contacts with credit buyers and;
- A registry that keeps track of credit sales
To learn more, see the Forest Conservation page
