Climate
By Josh McDaniel
Land managers will soon be faced with the apparent paradox of simultaneously managing forests for both fire management and carbon sequestration. Research presented at the conference showed that researchers will be working alongside land managers to solve that puzzle.
By Josh McDaniel
Large fluxes of carbon into the atmosphere from wildfires can have an impact on the global carbon cycle, and with policy initiatives forming around carbon management and carbon budgets, researchers are scrambling to fill in the gaps regarding the role of fire in carbon emissions and sequestration.
Fact Sheet-Role of Forest Carbon in Climate Change Policy
By Josh McDaniel
Forests absorb billions of tons of CO2 globally per year, amounting to about 30% of all CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning. This freebie economic subsidy may be coming to an end.
Fact Sheet-Role of Forest Carbon in Climate Change Policy
By Josh McDaniel
For Georgia forestry and fire officials, 2007 will also go down as one of the busiest in history. A complex of fires in and around the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge—eventually named the Georgia Bay Complex—consumed over 500,000 acres.
By Josh McDaniel
Toby Richards, a fire management officer for New Mexico's Gila National Forest, realized that something was changing in climate patterns when he had to check on a fire a few years back that had ignited in mid-winter above 9,000 feet.