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The goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act (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 greenhouse gas loss without
compromising the host of other ecosystem functions forest provide,
including climate regulation, protection of air and water quality,
biodiversity, wildlife habitat, recreation and other quality of life
attributes for human populations. |
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Forest-related Activities |
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Interagency Forestry Working Group (IFWG)
The
IFWG will provide recommendations and technical information to assist
the Board of Forestry in achieving the goals and objectives in the
ARB's Scoping Plan.
The IFWG will hold a Forest Inventory Symposium on October 19, 2009. Here is the Symposium agenda which contains links to the speakers' presentations. The presentations are also available below, by presenter name. |
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Forest Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocols
The
ARB recognizes that California's vast forestlands provide an
exceptional opportunity to address the state's climate challenge
through the use of voluntary Forest Project Protocols. |
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Forest Emissions Inventory
The ARB's forest sector greenhouse gas inventory includes CO2
uptake and greenhouse gas emissions from wild and prescribed fires, the
decomposition and combustion of residues from harvest and
conversion/development, and wood products decomposition. |
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Forest Scoping Plan Workgroup
The
Forest Working Plan Workgroup was formed as an interagency and
stakeholder workgroup to assess and further develop ideas for the ARB
Scoping Plan emissions reductions from the forest sector. |
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