Building forest carbon and market decision support

Project Description: The 2024-2025 Building forest carbon and market decision capacity webinar and workshop series invites academics, forest industry, and other forestry experts to present on relevant topics to increase adoption of climate-smart technologies and practices in forest systems. The series aims to develop and expand forest stakeholder knowledge and perspectives on forest carbon payment programs for more informed decisions-making by bringing together a diverse group of landowners, state and federal natural resource professionals, consulting foresters, academics, and policymakers. Support for this series is provided, in part, by funding from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Renewable Resources Extension Act.

This webinar series is co-hosted by the Forest Carbon and Climate Program (FCCP) at MSU and Forest Owner Carbon and Climate Education (FOCCE) at Penn State and supported by USDA Forest Service, Michigan State University Extension, Michigan DNR, and the Wisconsin DNR. The events took on Thursdays throughout fall 2024 and spring 2025 at 3 pm Eastern Time. Recordings and other information are posted online and can be accessed by clicking the button below. Support for this series is provided, in part, by funding from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Renewable Resources Extension Act.

Recordings and other information of the webinar series. 

This workshop series is also co-hosted by the Forest Carbon and Climate Program (FCCP) at MSU and Forest Owner Carbon and Climate Education (FOCCE) at Penn State and supported by USDA Forest Service, Michigan State University Extension, Michigan DNR, and the Wisconsin DNR. The events will take place throughout spring and summer 2025 in four locations of Northeast and Midwest. Registration and other information are posted online and can be accessed by clicking the button below. Participants of the workshop will be partially compensated for their travel. Details can be found by clicking the button below. 

Registration, location, accommodation and other information for the workshop series. 

This project also developed an online tool to estimate the economic tradeoff of extending rotation for forest carbon management. We adapted from the Excel Document developed by Stockmann et al. (2024) following the methods for Manage Forest Systems developed by US Forest Services. Click below button to use the tool and estimate forest carbon and economic tradeoff of extending rotation for forest carbon management at your forested lands. 

Forest Carbon Estimator

Please contact Dr. Chad Papa (papachad@msu.edu) or Dr. Raju Pokharel (raju2020@msu.edu) if you have any questions. 

Forest Economics and Resource Management (FERM) Lab
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