Forest Management

Biomass: Green & Sustainable Energy for Kentucky

06.08.2010

Here is my recent presentation on biomass for Kentucky, presented at several conferences. The slide show requires narration, which I will add as soon as possible. Biofuels for kentucky View more presentations from Tom Kimmerer.

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Stimulus Bill has funds for abandoned mine reclamation, other forest improvements

02.13.2009

The stimulus bill includes $650 Million for Forest Service capital improvement and maintenance. Much of stimulus money will go to correct the huge backlog of Forest Service deferred maintenance. Forest Service programs to be funded include: priority road, bridge and trail maintenance and decommissioning, including related watershed restoration and ecosystem enhancement projects; facilities improvement, maintenance [...]

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Cypress mulch is not sustainable

11.11.2008

Mulch made from baldcypress and the closely related pondcypress is prized by landscapers because its long strands create a lasting mulch bed. The native cypress forests of North America, concentrated along the southern Atlantic and Gulf Coast waterways, have been decimated by centuries of logging, erosion and development. Now, vast tracts of cypress are being [...]

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Old growth forests are good carbon sinks

09.26.2008

Old growth temperate forests are an important global carbon sink, soaking up CO2 at much higher rates than previously thought.The dogma for many decades has been that once forests become mature, they have such a large volume of non-green respiring (and CO2 releasing) tissue that they do not accumulate carbon.As a result, old growth forests [...]

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Carbon sequestering forestry in Kentucky

09.25.2008

A private company, GreenTrees, is creating long-term contracts with landowners in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley, including Western Kentucky, to plant forests of cottonwood and other hardwoods. The purpose of the project is to create value through a combination of biomass production for industry and carbon sequestration opportunities. Carbon sequestration will create income streams [...]

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Governors Conference

09.25.2008

I’m giving a keynote speech at the Kentucky Governor’s Conference on the Environment.  Notes in preparation for the talk, which will include some discussion of forests and soils for carbon sequestration are at Sustainable Kentucky.

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Put Forests Back Into Carbon Markets, say Gore and Maathai

09.23.2008

Andrew Revkin  at Dot Earth has a nice article about the proposal by Al Gore and Wangari Maathai to include forest preservation in carbon-trading markets designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions.  Gore and Maathai, both Nobel Peace Prize laureates for their conservation work, are promoting the work of the Avoided Deforestation Partners. Tropical forest conversion [...]

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Spain to plant 45 million trees before 2012

09.15.2008

Spain wil plant 45 million trees from 2009-2012 to slow desertification and combat climate change. The project will cost $127 million and employ nearly 3,000 people. Nearly 1/3 of Spain is in prolonged severe drought and at risk of desertification due to climate change. Spain is also establishing a new research center to fight desertification [...]

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Carbon Storage in Upper Midwest Forests

09.15.2008

Research by Peter Curtis (Ohio State University) and colleagues shows that northern Michigan forests can store an average of 0.65 tons C per acre per year. This rate of storage is higher than earlier estimates such as those used to develop the Kyoto Protocol, and is consistent with other recent studies that show that temperate [...]

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