The following workshops come from a series of events, collectively the Minnesota Forest Carbon Series, which were hosted by the Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative (SFEC) in the fall of 2021.
The first presentation, “Creating a Common Forest Carbon Language,” took place during the Carbon Markets workshop, the first event in the series. The two panel videos, “Forest Carbon Project Developers” and “Forest Carbon Market Participants,” also took place during this workshop.
The remaining three workshops were originally presented at the Technology and Forest Carbon Webinar Series, which was the last event in the Minnesota Forest Carbon Series.
These videos can also be viewed in YouTube playlist here: MN Forest Carbon Series 2021
See the related paper: Improved forest management as a natural climate solution: A review
Panel: Companies involved in carbon markets on large ownerships.
- Alex Macintosh - NCX
- Matt Smith - Finite Carbon/Core Carbon
- Kyle Holland - Forest Carbon Works
- Jen Simoni and Jonathan Shears - American Forest Foundation/The Nature Conservancy Family Forest Carbon Program
Panel of landowners and landowner service providers involved in carbon markets:
- Blandin - Quintin Legler
- Molpus - Craig Halla
- Minnesota Office of School Trust Lands - Aaron VandeLinde
- Steigerwaldt Land Services - Forrest Gibeault
Restoring forest cover is a prominent option for climate mitigation. However, trees are not appropriate for all locations and effective deployment of this strategy requires knowing where opportunities are and how they vary in carbon capture, costs, co-benefits, and feasibility. This presentation will describe two recent publications and the Reforestation Hub web tool that combine spatial, economic, and feasibility analyses to identify a menu of options for restoring forest cover across the lower 48 states of the United States. These tools are publicly available to help guide policy and implementation efforts at local, state, and national levels.
Remote-sensing supported datasets are being used to inform new methods for quantifying fire risk, forest inventory, and unlock forest carbon for natural capital marketplaces. This presentation will discuss the history and technology behind the national Basemap dataset from NCX, built in collaboration with Microsoft's AI for Earth program.
High-quality maps of forest carbon can greatly improve our ability to manage forests for climate change mitigation. Importantly, the amount of carbon taken up by the forest needs to be accurately monitored over time with statistical rigor. This presentation will demonstrate how to pair state-of-the-art forest carbon maps with forest inventory data to estimate forest carbon. An example approach using US Forest Service-Forest Inventory and Analysis field data and a forest carbon map product developed by NASA Carbon Monitoring System will be shown.