B23A:
Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Wood-Use and Forest Management I

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Session ID#: 6858

Session Description:
The sustainable use of forest biomass for bioenergy presents an opportunity to address climate change by reducing fossil fuel emissions. Changing practices in forest management, wood-use, and also post-consumer wood products can also result in lower emissions to the atmosphere.
This session focuses on the quantification of climate change mitigation for wood-use and forest management at the landscape scale. Wood-use includes using wood energy for substituting fossil fuels or using wood for substituting concrete or other products.  Forest management can include adjusting rotation ages, reducing logging wastes, eliminating on-site residue burning, and/or increasing growth.
OSPA Liaison:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada
Chair:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada
Primary Convener:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada
Convener:  Olaf Schwab, Natural Resources Canada, Policy, Economics and Industry Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ES - Earth Surface Processes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

B23A-01
Simulating Regional Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies on the Global Timber Market: Implications for Regional Forest Management (Invited) (34516)
John B Kim1, Brent Sohngen2, Sara B Ohrel3, James McFarland3, Erwan Monier4, Raymond J Drapek5, Bear Pitts6 and Jefferson Cole3, (1)US Forest Service Corvallis, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change Division, Washington D.C., DC, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)Oregon State University, Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society, Corvallis, OR, United States
B24A-0073
Investigating the Landscape Scale Carbon Implications of 100 Years of Land Management in the Sooke Lake Water Supply Watershed, Victoria, British Columbia (33479)
Byron P. K. Smiley1,2 and John A Trofymow2,3, (1)University of Victoria, Geography, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)University of Victoria, Biology, Victoria, BC, Canada
B23A-03
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential and Timing of Forest Bioenergy in Canada (33899)
Jerome Laganiere1, David Pare1, Evelyne Thiffault2 and Pierre Y Bernier3, (1)Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Québec City, QC, Canada, (2)Université Laval, Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Québec City, QC, Canada, (3)Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada
B23A-05
Long-Term Impacts from Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks on Merchantable Biomass, Ecosystem Carbon, Surface Albedo, and Net Radiative Forcing: The Major Role of Vegetation Response (33343)
Jean-Sébastien Landry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, David T Price, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Navin Ramankutty, University of British Columbia, IRES, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Lael Parrott, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada and Damon Matthews, Concordia University, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Montreal, QC, Canada
B23A-07
Economic feasibility of conifer afforestation in North America using a process-based growth model (35358)
Meng Ju Lee1,2, Muhammad Altaf Arain1,2, Dan McKenney3 and Suo Huang1,2, (1)McMaster University, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)McMaster Centre for Climate Change, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (3)Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada
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