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Dartmouth Sustainable Tropical Forest Policies Study

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Jodi Brandt, a former postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College and now an assistant professor at Boise State University, and her colleagues show that policies aimed at protecting tropical forests in the Congo Basin may unexpectedly lead to increased deforestation and timber production.

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