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Northern Forest Renewable Energy Report PDF

Fossil fuels are the leading cause of climate change, and their extraction and combustion cause many other serious environmental and social impacts.  For this reason, one of the most important tasks for our age is to accomplish a transition to renewable home-grown sources of energy.  However, renewable energy development also has impacts and could encroach on large areas of intact forestland in northern New England.  How do we decide when these new developments are truly necessary?

Comments on California's Mandatory Reporting Rule for biomass greenhouse gas emissions PDF

On August 9, 2011, a group of environmental organizations, including The Wilderness Society, provided comments (see below) to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on proposed revisions to the Regulation for the Mandatory Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (MRR).

Protecting our Forests: Biomass Sources in the Northeast PDF

Tree waste - sawmill byproducts, urban tree trimmings, and tops and limbs leftover from timber harvesting - can be a nearly carbon neutral energy source when burned for heat and electricity. However, burning whole trees can actually produce more greenhouse gases than even coal or oil - and 98.5% of mill waste is already being utilized.

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.