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The goal of management in the state forest is to maintain multiple uses and support a variety of resource values that are described in the enabling statutes, which unfortunately are across the room from me right now. So I can't read it verbatim, but those include, like, fish and wildlife resources, traditional uses, extractable mineral resources, and timber, among others. So the management goal for the state forest includes balancing a wide range of values and uses. One of the goals in the revision is to include carbon offsets among those uses. And there needs to be language in the plan that identifies carbon offsets as a potential use before any planning or like, consideration of projects can occur.

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