Land use, the Climate Change Action Plan, and U.S. Department of Defense forests

Journal Article · Fri Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1996 · World Resource Review

OSTI ID:234033

Barker, J R; Baumgardner, G A; Lee, J J; McFarlane, J C ^[1]

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1. National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab., Corvallis, OR (United States). Western Ecology Div.

The Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) commits the US to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to their 1990 levels by the year 2000. Management to improve carbon (C) sequestration by forests may be one way to offset increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. A forest-inventory model and a forest-carbon model were used to calculate C pools and fluxes for the forests of Camp Shelby--a military training base in Mississippi. Research objectives were to model C pools and fluxes from 1990 through 2040, and to account for on-site and off-site C benefits as they relate to achieving the CCAP in Mississippi. In comparison with conservation management, tree harvesting for merchantable logs, fuelwood, or land-use change decreased C pools and sequestration rates, while reforestation increased C pools and sequestration rates. The production of lumber or fuelwood from the harvested trees contributed to off-site C benefits. However, only fuelwood produced long-term, off-site C benefits adequate to offset on-site C losses from harvesting trees. The reforestation scenario could provide about 1.3% of the C offset needed to obtain the CCAP in Mississippi. 32 refs., 2 figs., 5 tabs.

• OSTI ID: 234033
• Journal Information: World Resource Review, Journal Name: World Resource Review Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 8; ISSN WRRVE5; ISSN 1042-8011
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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