FCCP Researchers in Collaboration with American Forests Publish Report on Natural Climate Solutions and Climate-Smart Forestry in California

FCCP researchers and collaborators publish report suggesting that implementation of key management practices could decrease the state’s forest carbon emissions by 14% over the next 50 years.

Thinned area in the Lassen National Forest. USDA Forest Service photo by Cecilio Ricardo.
Thinned area in the Lassen National Forest. USDA Forest Service photo by Cecilio Ricardo.

FCCP research, Dr. Chad Papa, Dr. Kylie Clay, Lauren Cooper, and Graham Diedrich along with colleagues at American Forests, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the USDA Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada published a report title “Effects of Forest Management & Wood Utilization on Carbon Sequestration & Storage in California. The report found that implementing key climate-smart forest management practices and wood utilization strategies could decrease the state’s forest carbon emissions by 14% over the next 50 years.

This report is a part of the larger state-level forest and forest product carbon modeling project the FCCP has engaged with. This project has been supported in part the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the U.S. Climate Alliance.

To access the report please visit American Forest’s website here: https://www.americanforests.org/project/forest-carbon-modeling/

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