By Claudia Braymer, Protect the Adirondacks Executive Director Environmental and conservation groups support a new bill to provide tax incentives to landowners to help them protect their wild forest lands. Maintaining mature wild forests conserves wildlife habitat, protections air and water quality and soil health, and helps to fight climate change by sequestering and storing carbon. Permanently protecting forest lands will also help New York meet its statutory goal of conserving 30 percent o...
