[MCN] How can Weyerhauser help Montana meet climate goals?

[Lance Olsen]

The Hill "Congress Blog"  December 02, 2015, 06:30 am
Seeing the carbon for the trees
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http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/261655-seeing-the-carbon-for-the-trees

By Rita Hite and Jad Daley
Hite is the American Forest Foundation's executive vice president of 
the American Tree Farm System, Woodlands, and Policy. Daley is the 
director of The Trust for Public Land's Climate Conservation Program.

Excerpt:
"With over half of U.S. forests in private hands, the majority of our 
forest carbon sink will be determined by corporate timberland 
managers, family forest owners, and other private actors. A new 
report from the American Forest Foundation reveals that even in the 
rural West, long perceived as a federally controlled landscape, the 
most essential public water supply areas and most fire prone forests 
have substantial private ownership. We can't mobilize western forests 
for climate change without an unprecedented public-private 
partnership." 

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/261655-seeing-the-carbon-for-the-trees
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"Although it is encouraging to know that Douglas-fir forests will 
acclimate to a warmer climate, in some regions, this increased 
drought tolerance may come at the expense of a relatively fast growth 
rate that is prized by land managers. 'We found that populations 
could have good growth and reasonable drought resistance, or 
reasonable growth and good drought resistance. You can't have both 
maximum growth and maximum drought resistance,' Bansal explains."

http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/sciencef/scifi179.pdf

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