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Going Out On A Limb With A Tree-Person Ratio | NPR
Trees, both leafy and otherwise, reflect sunshine in very particular patterns, making it possible for satellites to map and computers to count strips of land where trees are.
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Community-Based Forest Monitoring
We found that collaborative monitoring can lead to shared ecological understanding among diverse participants, build trust internally and credibility externally, foster social learning and community-building, and advance adaptive management.
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A Stimulus For Healthier Forests and Stronger Rural Economies | New West
In order to pull our national economy out of its malaise, it is important to focus on both our urban and rural economies.
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Seth Zuckerman: Community-Based Forestry in California
For any restoration effort to gain traction and staying power, it would need to be rooted in a community-wide approach.
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Community-Based Forestry in the U.S.
In many cases, CBF is the only viable option to sustain healthy forests and provide for sustainable communities and livelihoods.
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Incentives to Sustain Forest Ecosystem Services | International Institute for Environment and Development
The findings of this report are that payments for ecosystem services can create incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation.
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Pacific Northwest Forests and Carbon | ScienceDaily
If forests in this region were managed over hundreds of years to maximize carbon sequestration, the carbon in live and dead biomass could theoretically double in the Coast Range, west and east Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada; and triple in the Klamath Mountains.
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Carbon Benefits of Natural Landscapes
Conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy and US Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes discuss the strategy of managing forests, soils, grasslands and wetlands to store increasing amounts of carbon.
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Carbon Benefits of Natural Landscapes
Conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy and US Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes discuss the strategy of managing forests, soils, grasslands and wetlands to store increasing amounts of carbon.
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Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change | Convention on Biological Diversity
The capacity of forests to resist change, or recover following disturbance, is dependent on biodiversity at multiple scales.
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William Boyd: Forest Carbon and Climate Change
It has become increasingly clear that REDD could be a crucial component of any overall political deal on a post-2012 agreement by breaking the Kyoto logjam and providing an avenue for developing countries to move toward meaningful emissions reductions commitments.
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William Boyd: Forest Carbon and Climate Change
It has become increasingly clear that REDD could be a crucial component of any overall political deal on a post-2012 agreement by breaking the Kyoto logjam and providing an avenue for developing countries to move toward meaningful emissions reductions commitments.
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Temperate forests store more carbon than tropical | PNAS
Researchers at Australian National University looked at 100 forest sites around the world and found that temperate moist forests stored an average of 377 tons of carbon per hectare in above ground biomass and tropical rainforests, 171 tC/ha.
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Ecologists Letter to Obama on REDD
We write specifically to urge you to make the conservation and restoration of native forests in the tropics and sub-tropics a central pillar of U.S. climate policy.
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Carbon Payments to Protect Biodiversity | Science
We discover that the biodiversity benefits of REDD can be doubled while incurring just a 4 to 8% reduction in carbon benefits, depending on the amount of REDD funds expended.
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Forest Monitoring with CLASLite, Imazon, and Google Earth
In what could be a critical development in helping tropical countries monitor deforestation, Google has unveiled a partnership with scientists using advanced remote sensing technology to rapidly analyze and map forest cover in extremely high resolution. The effort could help countries detect deforestation shortly after it occurs making it easier to prevent further forest clearing.
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Forest Tenure, Carbon and REDD | Rights and Resources Institute
Without understanding the way in which forests are owned and managed, the world risks more failed attempts to slow deforestation and promote rural development.
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U.S. Forests and Carbon | Issues In Ecology
U.S. forests and forest products currently offset 12-19% of U.S. fossil fuel emissions, largely owing to recovery from past deforestation and extensive harvesting.
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Enhance Rural Prosperity and Manage for Resilience | USDA
The Forest Service has issued a national road map for responding to climate change, along with a performance scorecard to measure how well each individual forest implements the strategy.
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Financing Forests | The Economist
According to the Informal Working Group on Interim Financing for REDD, an investment of $17 billion-30 billion between now and 2015 could cut deforestation by a quarter. This suggests a cost range for REDD of $2-4 per tonne of avoided emissions: a steal.
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