Estimating carbon stocks, emissions, and forest product life cycles under multiple management scenarios in Minnesota

Thursday, September 19, 2024

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM MST

Location: Embassy Suites, Aspen Daisy

Moderator(s)

Matt Russell, PhD

Forest Analytics Consultant
Arbor Custom Analytics LLC, United States
Elaine Oneil
MP

Maureen Puettmann, PhD

Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM), United States
JZ

John Zobel, n/a

Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota, United States

Forest management and silviculture effect carbon storage, sequestration, and emissions in Minnesota.

Analyzed four silvicultural scenarios: No management, business-as-usual, climate adaptive, and economic intensive for eight forest types across 100 years.

Carbon life cycle assessments determined the management effect on forest and harvested wood product carbon pools.

Participants will be able to compare different silvicultural approaches and their effect on forest sector carbon storage, sequestration, and emissions in Minnesota and similar regions. This comparison includes the main and interactive effects of forest management on landscape and harvested wood product carbon pools and fluxes.
Participants will be able to distinguish between forest management strategies and their long-term implications for carbon storage, sequestration, and emissions on the landscape and within harvested wood products, including substitution effects.
Participants will be able to identify methods for completing comprehensive assessments of forest sector carbon, including short-term and long-term storage, sequestration, and emission across diverse forest types and management scenarios.