{"id":620,"date":"2025-06-27T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:00:41","slug":"new-research-confirms-forests-are-crucial-to-minnesotas-climate-action-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/new-research-confirms-forests-are-crucial-to-minnesotas-climate-action-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Confirms Forests Are Crucial to Minnesota\u2019s Climate Action Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minnesota Forest Resources Council (MFRC) has released a forest carbon report from the University of Minnesota that provides new insights into the role of forests in achieving the state of Minnesota\u2019s climate action goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research shows that Minnesota\u2019s forests, a known carbon sink, are absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously estimated, offsetting about 15 percent of total statewide greenhouse gas emissions annually. It also demonstrates the importance of sustainable forest management for maintaining forest health and enhancing carbon storage over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"539\" data-attachment-id=\"621\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/new-research-confirms-forests-are-crucial-to-minnesotas-climate-action-goals\/image-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png\" data-orig-size=\"976,539\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image.png 976w, https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-768x424.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you want to know more?  Read the full report at <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/frc\/assets\/MFRC_Carbon_Project_FINAL_REPORT_tcm1162-661769.pdf\">MFRC_Carbon_Project_FINAL_REPORT_tcm1162-661769.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Forest Resources Council (MFRC) has released a forest carbon report from the University of Minnesota that provides new insights into the role of forests in achieving the state of Minnesota\u2019s climate action goals. The research shows that Minnesota\u2019s forests, a known carbon sink, are absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/new-research-confirms-forests-are-crucial-to-minnesotas-climate-action-goals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Research Confirms Forests Are Crucial to Minnesota\u2019s Climate Action Goals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phepCL-a0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sleepingbeartreefarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}