Forest management scenarios in a changing climate: trade-offs between carbon, timber, and old forest.

ABSTRACT: Balancing economic, ecological, and social values has long been a challenge in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, where conflict over timber harvest and old-growth habitat on public lands has been contentious for the past several decades. The Northwest Forest Plan, adopted two decades ago to guide management on federal lands, is currently being revised as the region searches for a balance between sustainable timber yields and habitat for sensitive species. In addition, climate change imposes a high degree of uncertainty on future forest productivity, sustainability of timber harvest, wildfire risk, and species habitat. We evaluated the long-term, landscape-scale trade-offs among carbon (C) storage, timber yield, and old forest habitat given projected climate change and shifts in forest

SUBMITTER: Creutzburg MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11851340 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature