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Carbon protection and fire risk reduction: toward a full accounting of forest carbon offsets
Abstract
Management of forests for carbon uptake is an important tool in the effort to slow the increase in atmospheric CO 2 and global warming. However, some current policies governing forest carbon credits actually promote avoidable CO 2 release and punish actions that would increase long‐term carbon storage. In fire‐prone forests, management that reduces the risk of catastrophic carbon release resulting from stand‐replacing wild‐fire is considered to be a CO 2 source, according to current accounting practices, even though such management may actually increase long‐term carbon storage. Examining four of the largest wildfires in the US in 2002, we found that, for forest land that experienced catastrophic stand‐replacing fire, prior thinning would have reduced CO 2 release from live tree biomass by as much as 98%. Altering carbon accounting practices for forests that have historically experienced frequent, low‐severity fire could provide an incentive for forest managers to reduce the risk of catastrophic fire and associated large carbon release events.
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“…to reduce fire intensities, thereby decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon storage in some landscapes, has been proposed as a strategy to mitigate climate change (Williams et al., 2004; Hurteau et al., 2008), although the global benefit of these interventions remains unknown.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hurteau, M. D., Koch, G. W., & Hungate, B. A.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-11
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 493-498
- ISSN
- 1540-9295 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-9309
- OpenAlex
- W2019361219
- Cited by
- 228
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 18.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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