Climate Change and Forestry in California


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Climate Change and Forestry in California



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California Dept. Forestry and Fire Protection

United States Forest Service California

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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).

  ARB Forest-related Activities

Forest Scoping Plan Workgroup 

California Climate Action Registry's Forest Accounting Protocols 

Forest Emission Inventory 

For further information, please contact ARB's forestry staff: email Forestry or call (916) 322-1029

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