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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.

Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Western Oregon Plan Revision PDF

Organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest submitting these comments in response to the WOPR DEIS.

From Despair to Hope: A Chronicle of Federal Old-Growth Forest Policy in the Pacific Northwest PDF

Schools, Counties, and Logs: Federal Lands Payment Programs in the Pacific Northwest PDF

For nearly a century, school and county government officials in the Pacific Northwest have relied on federal timber sales to fund a portion of their budgets. The link between schools, counties, and federal land management was especially strong when logging of old-growth forests produced bountiful revenues for many rural counties and school districts. However, that linkage has turned from a benefit to a liability for counties due to the precipitous decline in timber production from federal lands during the 1990s.

Federal Land Payments to Counties PDF

To compensate state and local governments for the tax-exempt status of federal lands, each year the federal government pays millions of dollars to 42 states and 714 counties that contain national forests. Most of the payments are made through two different but interrelated programs – 25% revenue sharing and payments in lieu of taxes (PILT). These fact sheets explore the programs.