Need to manage management decisions about carbon: There is a dashboard for that

Andrea Watts; Sean P. Healey; Matt C. Reeves; Richard Birdsley; Duncan C. McKinley; Alexa Dugan

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Need to manage management decisions about carbon: There is a dashboard for that

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Andrea Watts, Sean P. Healey, Matt C. Reeves, Richard Birdsley, Duncan C. McKinley, Alexa Dugan

Year:

2021

Type:

Science Bulletins and Newsletters

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 47. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 11 p.

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Abstract

The 193 million acres managed by the Forest Service play a significant role in the United States’ mitigation of climate change by serving the dual role of removing carbon from the atmosphere and providing long-term carbon storage. In acknowledgment of the importance of these lands, the 2012 Forest Planning Rule requires forest management plans to address how management activities will affect carbon stocks. However, when the rule was adopted, there weren’t baseline carbon stock estimates readily available to forest managers, nor was it fully understood how management activities or disturbances affect carbon stocks.

Keywords

Science You Can Use, SYCU, forest management, climate change, carbon stock

Citation

Watts, Andrea; Healey, Sean; Reeves, Matt; Birdsley, Richard; McKinley, Duncan; Dugan, Alexa. 2021. Need to manage management decisions about carbon: There is a dashboard for that. Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 47. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 11 p.