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Comment 3 for Forests Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-forests-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Lynn
Last Name: Jungwirth
Email Address: lynnj@hayfork.net
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Subject: Forest Greenhouse Gases contribution wrong
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Sirs: Please address your decision to ascribe 0 emissions from forests. The forest fires of today and yesterday produce about 20% of the greenhouse gases of California. The ability of the forest to sequester carbon after some of these fires is very dimished due to ecosystem conversion. check with the NOr Cal air resources board for their estimates from 1999 and today. If we don't address the wildfire issues we will not make a gain on ggh. Your tables do not reflect wildfire....look out the window. The studies have been done on the emissions and the carbon and the public health issues...please put them in this strategy. Contact Mark Necodem at USFS if you need to. A wildfire strategy could reduce emission and provide non fossil fuel energy from the byproducts of forest thinnings...why isn't that squarely in your strategy? You talk of the snow pack in the Sierra's ...converting the forests to brushfields is not going to help, either. Please address this glaring hole in your strategy.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-07-07 09:58:16
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