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Bioenergy, Climate Change, and Carbon

Adapting State Forest Carbon Inventory Frameworks: Lessons and Results from Colorado

Wednesday, September 18, 2024
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM MST
Location: Embassy Suites, River Birch C
Colorado adapted a statewide forest carbon accounting framework from Pacific Northwest states. We used freely available data to quantify forest ecosystem and harvested wood products carbon. Here, we share lessons from this process and their implications for other states, resources available to replicate this framework, and recent forest carbon trends.

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand the approach, input data, and models used in state-level carbon accounting frameworks and identify resources and tools developed by various groups to make state carbon accounting frameworks more transferable.
  • Describe trends in Colorado’s forest ecosystem carbon and harvested wood products over recent decades.
  • Detail the lessons learned about adapting carbon accounting frameworks from the Pacific Northwest to Colorado and other Rocky Mountain states.