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- Title
Our National Forests as Carbon Sinks: A Timely and Appropriate Change in Management Emphasis.
- Authors
Smith, Rebecca K.
- Abstract
The article explores the implications of studies estimating that U.S. forests offset carbon dioxide emissions for the management of National Forest lands. Examples of environmental changes that result from climate change include an increase in weather extremes like droughts, heavy precipitation events, and tropical cyclone activity, decreasing snow pack, changes in permafrost conditions, and loss of glaciers leading to rising sea levels. A recommendation presented stated that the U.S. National Forest Service should shift its emphasis from subsidizing commercial logging to maintaining National Forest lands as global carbon sinks.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FORESTS &; forestry; NATURAL resources; UNITED States. National Forest Service; GLOBAL environmental change; GLACIERS; CARBON dioxide
- Publication
Public Land & Resources Law Review, 2008, Vol 29, p183
- ISSN
1093-6858
- Publication type
Article