Managing Commercial Tree Species for Timber Production and Carbon Sequestration: Management Guidelines and Financial Returns
Abstract
A carbon credit market is developing in the United States. Information is needed by buyers and sellers of carbon credits so that the market functions equitably and efficiently. Analyses have been conducted to determine the optimal forest management regime to employ for each of the major commercial tree species so that profitability of timber production only or the combination of timber production and carbon sequestration is maximized. Because the potential of a forest ecosystem to sequester carbon depends on the tree species, site quality and management regimes utilized, analyses have determined how to optimize carbon sequestration by determining how to optimally manage each species, given a range of site qualities, discount rates, prices of carbon credits and other economic variables. The effects of a carbon credit market on the method and profitability of forest management, the cost of sequestering carbon, the amount of carbon that can be sequestered, and the amount of timber products produced has been determined.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Stephen F Austin State University
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 927777
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC26-00NT40931
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; TREES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ECONOMICS; FORESTS; RECOMMENDATIONS; WOOD PRODUCTS INDUSTRY; SPECIES DIVERSITY
Citation Formats
Kronrad, Gary D. Managing Commercial Tree Species for Timber Production and Carbon Sequestration: Management Guidelines and Financial Returns. United States: N. p., 2006.
Web. doi:10.2172/927777.
Kronrad, Gary D. Managing Commercial Tree Species for Timber Production and Carbon Sequestration: Management Guidelines and Financial Returns. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/927777
Kronrad, Gary D. 2006.
"Managing Commercial Tree Species for Timber Production and Carbon Sequestration: Management Guidelines and Financial Returns". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/927777. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/927777.
@article{osti_927777,
title = {Managing Commercial Tree Species for Timber Production and Carbon Sequestration: Management Guidelines and Financial Returns},
author = {Kronrad, Gary D},
abstractNote = {A carbon credit market is developing in the United States. Information is needed by buyers and sellers of carbon credits so that the market functions equitably and efficiently. Analyses have been conducted to determine the optimal forest management regime to employ for each of the major commercial tree species so that profitability of timber production only or the combination of timber production and carbon sequestration is maximized. Because the potential of a forest ecosystem to sequester carbon depends on the tree species, site quality and management regimes utilized, analyses have determined how to optimize carbon sequestration by determining how to optimally manage each species, given a range of site qualities, discount rates, prices of carbon credits and other economic variables. The effects of a carbon credit market on the method and profitability of forest management, the cost of sequestering carbon, the amount of carbon that can be sequestered, and the amount of timber products produced has been determined.},
doi = {10.2172/927777},
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place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2006},
month = {Tue Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2006}
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