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Many forestry specialists, scientists and environmentalists agree that modern forest management policies can make a difference in reducing harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, while providing environmentally-friendly wood products.

  

The majority information provided on this web site is drawn from the research and findings published in the following scientific studies and reports:

  

Forest Management

• Carbon Benefits from Forest Management – Zhang Powers USDA Forest Service
• New Ideas for Riparian and Stream Management - National Council for Air and Stream improvement, 2011
• Forest Management in the Sierra Nevada – Malcolm North USDA Forest Service
• True Cost of Wildfire in the Western United States
• PNW-GTR-763 - Forest Inventory Analysis
• Carbon Sequestration and Storage, Steve Mader, Ph.D., 2007
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Four California Wildfires:Opportunities to Prevent and Reverse Environmental and ClimateImpacts, Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Ph.D., 2008
• Forests, Carbon and Climate Change: A Synthesis of Science Findings, The Oregon Forest Resources Institute, Oregon State University College of Forestry, Oregon Department of Forestry, 2006.
• Protecting Communities and Saving Forests: Solving the Wildfire Crisis Through Restoration Forestry, Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Ph.D., 2007
• USDA FS Westcore Tables forest data (.mht)

 

Bioenergy

• Biomass to Energy CEC-500-2009-080 Nechodom
• Pacific Institute Morris Bioenergy Greenhouse Gases
• Emission Comparison Biomass Boilers to Field Burning

 

Wood and Carbon

• The Environmental Performance of Renewable Building Materials, John Perez-Garcia, Bruce Lippke, David Briggs, James B. Wilson, James Boyer, and Jaime Meil, 2006
• Jobs Creator Multipliers
• Green jobs created by investment sector
• The Sustainable Forest Products Industry, Carbon and Climate Change, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2007
• Integrated Management of Carbon Sequestration and Biomass Utilization.

 

From Print Media

• Renewable power is heating up fast in California
  By David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer
  San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday, December 7, 2010
  
  
• As California prepares to implement low carbon standards under A.B. 32, fears of energy price spikes mount
  By Erick Galindo, Staff Writer
  San Gabriel Valley Tribune, 12/05/2010
  
  
• STATES WANT CAP-AND-TRADE ADDED TO U.S. CARBON RULES
  Bloomberg, December 02, 2010
  
  
• Brown may find it's not easy being green
  Governor-elect's plan to expand the state's green-energy industry could mean sharply higher costs for consumers.
  By Anthony York
  Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2010
  
  
• EPA Should Clear Up Biomass Confusion
  Scientific community highlights the unintended consequences of the Tailoring Rule
  By Dan Whiting
  National Alliance for Forest Owners Press Release, December 1, 2010
  
  
• ARB Needs To Dispel Facts-Be-Damned Image
  Thomas D. Elias
  San Jose Mercury News, December 1, 2010
  
  
• CAP-AND-TRADE MARKET SPANNING NORTH AMERICA WEIGHED BY STATES
  San Francisco Chronicle – November 30, 2010
  
  
• Barclays, NRG Make First California Cap-and-Trade Deal
  By Jim Efstathiou Jr. and Simon Lomax
  Bloomberg - Nov 17, 2010
  
  
• Schwarzenegger launches new climate-change group
  The international organization of states and provinces intends to move ahead on the issue despite the failure to achieve a global climate pact in Copenhagen last year.
  By Margot Roosevelt
  Los Angeles Times, 12:03 AM PST, November 17, 2010
  
  
• Commerce Department Predicts Dramatic Job Loss From EPA Boiler Rule
  Inside EPA, November 12, 2010
  
  
• Green jobs cut despite government subsidy
  Orange County Register Editorial, 2010-11-10
  
  
• California's global warming law 'full speed ahead' -- but faces long road
  By Rick Daysog
  Sacramento Bee, Saturday, Nov. 06, 2010
  
  
• OBAMA TO FACE NEW FOES IN GLOBAL WARMING FIGHT
  John M. Broder
  New York Times – November 4, 2010
  
  
• Rule for federal biomass program may dilute its promise
  By Steve Brink
  CA Farm Bureau Ag Alert, Issue Date: November 3, 2010
  
  
• Recession cut level of California's carbon cap
  By Rick Daysog
  Sacramento Bee, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010