Compensation available for landowners wanting to protect forestlands

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By Ryan Lockwood

Special to The SUN

Colorado landowners who want to protect environmentally valuable private forest areas that could someday be threatened by development or conversion to other non-forest uses — and who desire to receive monetary compensation in the process — now have the opportunity to submit proposals to protect their forestlands.

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