Where’s the biomass? A new approach for quantifying biomass and carbon in the western United States

Andrea Watts; Andrew T. Hudak; Benjamin C. Bright; Sabrina Del Gado Aria; Patrick Fekety; Everett Hinkley; Edil Sepulveda; Kevin Halverson

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Where’s the biomass? A new approach for quantifying biomass and carbon in the western United States

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Andrea Watts, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Sabrina Del Gado Aria, Patrick Fekety, Everett Hinkley, Edil Sepulveda, Kevin Halverson

Year:

2020

Type:

Science Bulletins and Newsletters

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 42. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 12 p.

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Abstract

The 2012 USDA Forest Service Planning rule requires that National Forests incorporate mitigation and adaptation strategies in response to climate change into their forest management plans. An underlying foundation of this work is knowing the distribution of aboveground biomass across the landscape. Climate change may put some areas with high biomass at greater risk for carbon emissions from wildfires, whereas other areas with reduced risk of wildfire may be preferred locations to manage for increased carbon storage.

Keywords

Science You Can Use, SYCU, climate change, biomass, carbon, remote sensing

Citation

Watts, Andrea; Hudak, Andrew; Bright, Benjamin; Aria, Sabrina Del Gado; Fekety, Patrick; Hinkley, Everett; Sepulveda, Edil; Halverson, Kevin. 2020. Where’s the biomass? A new approach for quantifying biomass and carbon in the western United States. Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 42. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 12 p.