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Buying his dream house several years ago on the forest's edge near Corvallis, Oregon, essayist Chris Anderson hoped to find the joys of rural living. Despite interminable Mr. Blandings experiences, he lived embowered by 12,000 acres of seemingly endless fir trees. But not for long. The McDonald-Dunn Forest was about to become the site of a disturbing research project. Little did Anderson know when he bought his house that, in addition to studying the ecological effects of clear-cutting, the researchers wanted to see how urban fringe dwellers might be affected too. The shock of that harves

Clearcutting -- Environmental aspects -- Oregon. --- Forest ecology -- Oregon. --- Hybrid zones -- Oregon. --- Forest ecology --- Hybrid zones --- Clearcutting --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Clear-cutting --- Clear-felling --- Clearfelling --- Forest clearcutting --- Timber clearcutting --- Clearing of land --- Forest management --- Logging --- Cutover lands --- Intergrade zones --- Life zones --- Forest ecosystems --- Forests and forestry --- Environmental aspects

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This book is a product of the initial phase of a broader study evaluating the voluntary and regulatory compliance protocols that are used to account for the contributions of forests in U.S.-based greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation programs. The research presented here is particularly concerned with these protocols’ use of the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data to describe forest conditions, ownership, and management scenarios, and is oriented towards providing regulators and other interested parties with an objective comparison of the options, uncertainties, and opportunities available to offset GHG emissions through forest management. Chapters focus on the protocols for recognizing forest carbon offsets in the California carbon cap-and-trade program, as described in the Compliance Offset Protocol; U.S. Forest Projects (California Air Resources Board, 2011). Readers will discover the protocols used for quantifying the offset of GHG emissions through forest-related project activity. As such, its scope includes a review of the current methods used in voluntary and compliance forest protocols, an evaluation of the metrics used to assign baselines and determine additionality in the forest offset protocols, an examination of key quantitative and qualitative components and assumptions, and a discussion of opportunities for modifying forest offset protocols, in light of the rapidly changing GHG-related policy and regulatory environment. Finally, the report also discusses accounting and policy issues that create potential barriers to participation in the California cap-and-trade program, and overall programmatic additionality in addressing the needs of a mitigation strategy.

Environment. --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Fossil fuels. --- Climate change. --- Forestry management. --- Environmental management. --- Air pollution. --- Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution. --- Climate Change Management and Policy. --- Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture). --- Forestry Management. --- Environmental Management. --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Carbon offsetting --- Carbon sequestration --- Greenhouse gas mitigation --- Clearcutting --- Forest management --- Abatement of greenhouse gas emissions --- Emission reduction, Greenhouse gas --- Emissions reduction, Greenhouse gas --- GHG mitigation --- Greenhouse gas abatement --- Greenhouse gas emission reduction --- Greenhouse gas emissions reduction --- Greenhouse gas reduction --- Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions --- Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions --- Carbon capture and storage --- Carbon dioxide sequestration --- CCS (Carbon sequestration) --- Carbon offset trade --- Carbon trading --- Forest administration --- Forest plants --- Forest resource administration --- Forest resource management --- Forest stewardship --- Forest vegetation management --- Forestry management --- Forests and forestry --- Stewardship, Forest --- Vegetation management, Forest --- Clear-cutting --- Clear-felling --- Clearfelling --- Forest clearcutting --- Timber clearcutting --- Management --- Administration --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Clearing of land --- Logging --- Cutover lands --- Pollution prevention --- Sequestration (Chemistry) --- Carbon dioxide mitigation --- Emissions trading --- Control --- Environmental protection. --- Forests and forestry. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest production --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry --- Forestry sciences --- Land, Forest --- Lands, Forest --- Silviculture --- Sylviculture --- Woodlands --- Woods (Forests) --- Agriculture --- Afforestation --- Arboriculture --- Timber --- Tree crops --- Trees --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals --- Air --- Air contaminants --- Air pollutants --- Air pollution --- Air pollution control --- Air toxics --- Airborne pollutants --- Atmosphere --- Contaminants, Air --- Control of air pollution --- Pollutants, Air --- Toxics, Air --- Pollution --- Air quality --- Atmospheric deposition --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Government policy --- Environmental aspects --- Global environmental change --- Climatic changes. --- Forest management. --- Pollution.