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Carbon Information Needed to Support Forest Management
Bob Davis, Director Of Planning, Watershed And Air, USDA
Forest Service
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USDA Forest Service
• National Forest System
• 155 National Forests• 20 Grasslands• 193 Million Acres
• Research and Development
• 7 Research Stations• 500 Scientists
• State and Private Forestry
• Technical and Financial • Fire and Aviation Mgt.• Forest Health• Cooperative Forestry
Carbon Policy Aspects
Climate Change Response Strategies Mitigation/Sequestration Adaptive Management/Resilience
Climate Change Performance Scorecard Element 9 – Carbon stocks and flows.
National Forest Management Act 2012 Planning Rule: Systems drivers, including climate change (219.6(b)(3)) Baseline assessment of carbon stocks (219.6(b)(4))
Carbon Off-Set Policies and potential future use in policy
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Assessing Carbon• Need to Model
Carbon• Forest Carbon
Management Framework (ForCaMF)
• The Integrated Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Model (InTEC)
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Overall stocks may be estimated through forest inventory methods
Courtesy: Chris Woodall, Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA) of the US Forest Service
However, stock estimates give little insights into forest dynamics and how carbon storage might be managed
The Integrated Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Model (InTEC)
We are using an ecosystem process model to augment the monitoring data from Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) inventories
InTEC allows the estimates from FIA to be partitioned into the main causes of observed trends: Harvesting Natural Disturbance Climate
For application to U.S. National Forests, InTEC is closely calibrated to FIA standards
Examples of InTEC Results
for Continental U.S. (Zhang et. al 2012)
Top: Annual net biome production of U.S. forests (vegetation and soil)
Bottom: Geographic distribution of annual net biome production from 2 main causes, 1990-2010
Downscaling with InTEC: Spatial and Temporal Change in Carbon Stocks, Northern
Wisconsin and Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
InTEC Model (Zhang et al. 2012)
The Forest Carbon Management Framework (ForCaMF)
Tool for identifying the effects of management and natural
disturbances on carbon storage in forests
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Landsat-based maps of 1990 vegetation conditions and 1990-2011 disturbance effects• Calibrated with Forest Service
records and inventories
Forest Service Growth Simulator (FVS)• Already used in the planning process
Report for each National Forest about the local influence of disturbance versus growth• Consistent with other Forest
Service tools• Calibrated for landscape-
level planning units
Effects of management and disturbance may be identified for each National Forest
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The Forest Carbon Management Framework (ForCaMF)
Fire Emissions
Harvest Emissions
Extreme fire year
Carb
on E
mit
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(t/
year)
The combination of remote sensing, inventory, and Forest Service growth models allows locally meaningful but nationally repeatable insights into what affects forest carbon storage
Carbon Information Needed to Support Forest Management
Forest Service Climate Change Resource Center http://www.fs.fed.us/ccrc/
2010 Resources Planning Act Assessment (Chapter 10) http://www.fs.fed.us/research/rpa/
Forest Inventory and Analysis http://www.fia.fs.fed.us/
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