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Maine Forest Management Hampering Ability of Forests to Reap Climate Benefits

Over the last 20 years, Maine鈥檚 forests have become younger and less dense. As a result, forests are not providing the most climate benefits that they could through carbon sequestration and storage. However, more carbon could be stored over the next 100 years with less frequent harvests of smaller amounts of wood from each acre, according to new research from the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station at the 麻豆app.

NH Business Review: A comprehensive look at NH鈥檚 school-funding commission report

The NH Business Review听reports on the New Hampshire Commission to Study School Funding and its work on the final report due to the NH Legislature and governor on Dec. 1. The Commission, which is being supported by a team at the Carsey School of Public Policy, is identifying a more equitable public school-funding model for the state and has been working on this initiative since January 2020.

Sentinel Source: How New Hampshire arrived at a child care crisis

Research听by Jess Carson, research assistant professor at the Carsey School, and Marybeth听Mattingly, policy fellow at the Carsey School, show that the pandemic has proven just how fragile听the nation鈥檚 early childhood care system is.听The central problems, according to Carson and Mattingly, are that child care providers don鈥檛 generate enough revenue to pay staff members well, making it difficult to find employees; simultaneously, care is too costly for many families to afford.