Analysis: Top Ten Carbon Storing National Forests in America
National forests, national parks and other federally-owned forests in the Pacific Northwest and Southeast Alaska hold extraordinary amounts of carbon and therefore play an important role in defending against climate change. According to United States Forest Service data, the ten national forests in the United States that store the most carbon per forested acre are all located in western Oregon, western Washington and southeast Alaska. Moist late-successional forests west of the Cascade Range mountains are among the Earth's greatest carbon storing ecosystems.
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By Ann Ingerson, Economist, and Mike Anderson, Senior Resource Analyst
photo: Oregon coast looking south from Cape Perpetua in the Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon. Photo by Joe Mabel, Wikimedia Commons.
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Ann joined The Wilderness Society's Ecology and Economics Research Department in 1999, after 18 years teaching ecological economics, agriculture and outdoor skills at a small college. Her work at The Wilderness Society focuses on the community... More about Ann Ingerson
