The Coos County Commission has voiced fresh concerns about the carbon credits industry in New Hampshire

The Coos County Commission has voiced fresh concerns about the carbon credits industry in New Hampshire and its impact on the local timber industry, as well as new worries about the future of outdoor recreation in the upper reaches of the county. The transaction makes Aurora the state’s largest private landowner of a single tract. The company’s stated plan is to reduce the timber harvest by at least half to instead let trees grow to sell carbon credits to companies wanting to or required to buy them, by states such as California, to offset their carbon footprint. Under that plan, however, the Coos commissioners suggest that residents could become “outsiders to our own forest” if the region’s generations-long tradition of timber harvesting is dramatically curtailed and replaced by what they called a “carbon first” culture.