Integrated management of carbon sequestration and biomass utilization opportunities in a changing climate: Proceedings of the 2009 National Silviculture Workshop; 2009 June 15-18; Boise, ID.

Abstract

Forests are important for carbon sequestration and how they are manipulated either through natural or human induced disturbances can have an effect on CO2 emissions and carbon sequestration. The 2009 National Silviculture Workshop presented scientific information and management strategies to meet a variety of objectives while simultaneously addressing carbon sequestration and biomass utilization. The focus areas were: the role of climate change in science and management; silvicultural methods to address carbon sequestration and biomass utilization; alternative silvicultural strategies to address the growth and development of forests; and current applications of computer simulation models or modeling techniques designed to provide decision support.

Titles contained within Integrated management of carbon sequestration and biomass utilization opportunities in a changing climate: Proceedings of the 2009 National Silviculture Workshop; 2009 June 15-18; Boise, ID.

• Introduction
• Remarks
• Ecosystem services and climate change: Understanding the differences and identifying opportunities for forest carbon
• Integrating climate change considerations into forest management tools and training
• Carbon concentrations and carbon pool distributions in dry, moist, and cold mid-aged forests of the Rocky Mountains
• Carbon benefits from fuel treatments
• Forest biomass and tree planting for fossil fuel offsets in the Colorado Front Range
• To manage or not to manage: The role of silviculture in sequestering carbon in the specter of climate change
• Estimating long-term carbon sequestration patterns in even- and uneven-aged southern pine stands
• The role of forests in energy and climate change - integrating objectives
• The forest-bioenergy-carbon connection
• Biomass utilization opportunities to achieve diverse silvicultural goals
• Emissions, energy return and economics from utilizing forest residues for thermal energy compared to onsite pile burning
• Can portable pyrolysis units make biomass utilization affordable while using bio-char to enhance soil productivity and sequester carbon?
• Ethanol production from woody biomass: Silvicultural opportunities for suppressed western conifers
• Estimating site index from tree species composition in mixed stands of upland eastern hardwoods: Should shrubs be included?
• Consistent definition and application of Reineke's Stand Density Index in silviculture and stand projection
• The role of strategic forest inventories in aiding land management decision-making: Examples from the U.S
• Variable-density thinning for parks and reserves: An experimental case study at Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California
• Site quality changes in response to slash retention and prescribed fire in thinned ponderosa pine forests
• Stand density guides for predicting growth of forest tress of southwest Idaho
• Built for the future: New directions in silviculture research and demonstration at Montana's Lubrecht Experimental Forest
• Addressing climate change in the Forest Vegetation Simulator to assess impacts on landscape forest dynamics
• Calibration of state and transition models with FVS
• FVS out of the box - assembly required
• An empirical approach for estimating natural regeneration for the Forest Vegetation Simulator
• Evaluating the ecological sustainability of a pinyon-juniper grassland ecosystem in northern Arizona
• Summary of the 2009 National Silviculture Workshop

Citation

Jain, Theresa B.; Graham, Russell T.; and Sandquist, Jonathan, tech. eds. 2010. Integrated management of carbon sequestration and biomass utilization opportunities in a changing climate: Proceedings of the 2009 National Silviculture Workshop; 2009 June 15-18; Boise, ID. Proceedings RMRS-P-61. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 351 p.