A closer look at forests on the edge: future development on private forests in three states.

White, Eric M.; Mazza, Rhonda

doi:10.2737/pnw-gtr-758

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“…5). More ZCTAs were affected by risk as population density weighting increased, which is a scenario supported by the literature [28,29,30]. Preferred locations for biomass-using facilities in the long-term, in the presence of higher population density, appeared to be in southern Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas.…”

Section: Risk Assessment With Weightssupporting

confidence: 64%

“…[42] argues that "people in small towns and rural communities are more vulnerable than people in large cities because of weaker preparedness." In this study, the population density in each 5-digit ZCTA was used as an indicator of the social dimension of vulnerability [28,29,30]. We classify the population density in each ZCTA into five levels, and assign a vulnerability probability to each population density level (Table 5).…”

Section: Risk Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Geospatial Biomass Supply Model Adjusted for Risk

Perdue¹,

Young²,

Stanturf³

et al. 2018

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Assessing the economic supply of biomass in a geospatial context while accounting for risk from natural disasters was studied. Risk levels were estimated from a component of factors which included: population density, road density, federal ownership, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ecoregions, and Presidential Disaster Declarations. The Presidential Disaster Declarations included risks due to: coastal storm, drought, fire, flood, freezing, hurricane, mud land slide, severe ices, severe storms, snow, tornado, and tropical storm. Presidential Disaster Declarations included summaries based on a short-term time period from 2000-2011, and on a long-term time period from 1964-2011. Risk categories were developed as a function of the number of disaster declarations, agricultural-to-forest land ratio, average road density, and average population density. A significant contribution of the research was the allocation of spatially explicit data using GIS technology at the 5-digit zip code tabulation area. The average area for 5-digit ZCTAs in the Eastern U.S. study region was approximately 169 kilometers2. Long-term risk (1964-2011) from disaster declarations had a greater impact on the economic availability of biomass supply relative to short-term declarations (2000-2011). The greatest risk to biomass supply came from population density relative to the other risk factors studies.   Of the 25,044 total ZCTAs, 12,256 ZCTAs were in locations that did not include population density ≥ 150/km2, road density ≥ 14 km/km2, federal ownership, and US Environmental Protection Agency Level III ecoregions. Of the remaining 12,256 ZCTAs, 26.8% were considered to be moderate-to-high risk based on short-term declarations (2000-2011) and 29.4% were considered to be moderate-to-high risk based on long-term declarations (1964-2011). Lower risk locations for procuring biomass supply for both short-term and long-term declarations, across all risk factors, were in southern Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas.

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Section: Risk Assessment With Weightssupporting

confidence: 64%

Section: Risk Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Geospatial Biomass Supply Model Adjusted for Risk

Perdue¹,

Young²,

Stanturf³

et al. 2018

Preprint

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“…The co-benefits of keeping forests as forests are vast and the need is significant. About 6% (~1.4 million acres) of all forests in Washington were converted to other uses between 1970 and 2008 [72]. Oregon, frequently held up as a paragon of land use policy, lost an average of nearly 51,000 acres each year between 2000 and 2014 [73].…”

Section: Land Use: Keeping Forests As Forestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Moist Forests of the Pacific Northwest United States for Climate Positive Outcomes

Fain

Kittler

Chowyuk

2018

Forests

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The moist forests of the Pacific Northwest United States (PNW) are among the most naturally carbon rich ecoregions in the world. However, regional in-forest carbon storage levels are currently well below ecological potential. Recent climate policy proposals have renewed and deepened debates over forest sector climate strategies. This paper begins with a review of regionally applicable forest carbon life cycle assessments (LCAs) in an effort to provide some clarity around how these studies are conducted, and why their results may vary. The review highlights the importance of assumptions made during carbon accounting across the wood product lifespan and how the inclusion or exclusions of variables, such as product substitution and leakage, influence study results and subsequent management recommendations. Next we discuss the influence of climate change on forest management and planning. We conclude with a review of regional-specific factors to consider when developing optimal forest climate strategies in the moist forests of the PNW. These strategies include, but are not limited to; extending harvest rotations, shelterwood and select tree harvests (in lieu of full harvest), and managing forests for increased structural, age, and species complexity.

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“…FIA plot was assigned a biosite value based on a subjective assessment by trained observers of the quantity and severity of damages (Coulston et al 2003 (Stein et al 2007); studied future development on private forests in Georgia, Washington, and Maine (White and Mazza 2008); and reported on sensitivity analyses conducted for the first Forests on the Edge report. (White et al 2009).…”

Section: Air Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Private forests, public benefits: increased housing density and other pressures on private forest contributions

McRoberts¹,

Mahal²,

Carr³

et al. 2009

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The Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is dedicated to the principle of multiple use management of the Nation's forest resources for sustained yields of wood, water, forage, wildlife, and recreation. Through forestry research, cooperation with the States and private forest owners, and management of the National Forests and National Grasslands, it strives-as directed by Congress-to provide increasingly greater service to a growing Nation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or part of an individual's income is derived from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.

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A closer look at forests on the edge: future development on private forests in three states.

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

A Geospatial Biomass Supply Model Adjusted for Risk

A Geospatial Biomass Supply Model Adjusted for Risk

Managing Moist Forests of the Pacific Northwest United States for Climate Positive Outcomes

Private forests, public benefits: increased housing density and other pressures on private forest contributions

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