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The goals of AB32
have focused renewed attention on California forests and the role they
play in the carbon cycle. There is a need to understand how much carbon
dioxide California forests are currently producing and sequestering,
and how much they could sequester in the future. There is also a need
to understand how management practices could potentially increase
carbon sequestration and decrease carbon loss without compromising the
other ecosystem functions forest provide (habitat, structure, nutrient
cycling, for example), as well as the suite of other benefits humans
depend on from the forests (water storage, soil stability, air and
water purification, temperature modification, wood products,
recreation, for example). |