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Analysis: Top Ten Carbon Storing National Forests in America PDF

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.

Carbon Storage from Revegetating Unneeded Forest Service Roads PDF

An overlooked opportunity to sequester carbon on National Forests rests with its massive road system. Preliminary analysis by TWS has indicated that returning unneeded Forest Service roads back to a natural state would be equivalent to revegetating an area larger than Rhode Island. We estimate that carbon storage from decommissioning and revegetating unneeded roads on our national forests is 39.5 — 48.5 million metric tons.

Getting the whole job done: Safeguarding natural resources, storing carbon PDF

Protecting our natural resources from the impacts of climate change will help ensure our forests, wetlands, and other natural lands remain resilient in a warming world. Safeguarding natural resources through conservation, restoration, and careful management will create jobs and help maintain the ability of our forests and other natural areas to absorb and store hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide, a chief greenhouse gas. Investing in natural resource adaptation is a one-two-punch against climate change:

Wood Products and Carbon Storage: Can Increased Production Help Solve the Climate Crisis? PDF

This report draws on a variety of sources to illuminate the greenhouse gas impacts of wood products and wood biomass fuels throughout their life-cycles. While detailed analyses are rare, the picture is complete enough to show the variability of the processing path followed by different types of trees in various parts of the country. Taking the entire life-cycle of these products into account, it becomes clear that an increased use of wood fuels and lumber will have very little net effect on climate change. To the contrary, the impact is as likely to be negative as positive.

Climate Change Facts: A Primer on Carbon Cycling PDF

The Earth’s climate is changing. In the past, the climate warmed and cooled due to natural processes. Now humans are changing the climate by burning fossil fuels and permanently deforesting landscapes. Many of our wildlands are being stressed beyond their natural ability to adapt to these dramatic changes, and the full extent of how to deal with these changes remains unclear.

Climate Change Facts: Are Wildland Fires Making Climate Change Worse? PDF

Are wildland fires making climate change worse? The simple answer to this question is no. Wildland fires are natural events that represent a release of carbon that was stored in forests and that will be recaptured as forests regenerate.

U.S. Forest Carbon and Climate Change: Controversies and Win-Win Policy Approaches PDF

As consensus grows about the serious impacts of global climate change, the important role of forests in carbon storage is increasingly recognized. U.S. forests currently capture about 10 percent of the carbon released from our country’s use of fossil fuels. They do this by accumulating (or sequestering) a growing “bank account” of forest carbon stores, but the rate of growth of this account has begun to slow in recent years. Reforestation of former cropland and restoration of depleted timberland were responsible for much of the growth in the U.S.