Ry Patton (MS student) just published a paper summarizing historical management records, live-tree C stocks, and C sequestration rates at Huntington Wildlife Forest (Adirondacks, New York) was just published in Forest Ecology and Management. This paper aggregated 70+ years of forest management records and inventory datasets. The take-home message is a positive one for forest management in the current context of carbon management. Forests with a history of intensive management had higher rates of C sequestration (at least into the live-tree C pool), and the potentially negative tradeoffs related to biological and structural diversity declined over time and were largely absent after 30 years. This paper supports the view that some New York forests should be harvested for C storage into long-lived wood products, leaving behind forests that will grow vigorously over the coming decades.
The full paper is available at this link: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1frtA1L~GwUkrL
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Tree ecophysiology at SUNY-ESF Archives
October 2022
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