Ecological Forest Management Documents

This post contains a growing list of resources regarding ecological forest management practices advocated by Living Forests.

Carbon

• California Forest Carbon Plan: Managing Our Forest Landscapes in a Changing Climate, 2018
• Nature’s Make or Break Potential for Climate Change. October 16, 2017.
• Thomas Goreau on the value of preserving forests and particularly soil as a major carbon sink. 
• 40 countries are making polluters pay for carbon pollution. Guess who's not. June 15, 2017
• Forest & Wood Products poster, 2017.

Mass Timber Architecture

• Carbon12 (watch placement of last panel)
• Virtuoso (watch video)
• Research reports on tall wood buildings: I | II | III
• Notes from the Mass Timber Conference, by Amy Horne. 2018

Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT)

• Cross-Laminated Timber
• Hess Timber
• Setas de Sevilla Museum
• Removing Barriers to Cross-Laminated Timber Manufacture and Adoption in California: A game changer for wildfire, forests, and climate change, 2018.
• How CLT could change the US building landscape, 2017.
• Cross-Laminated Timber for Single-Family Residential Construction: Comparative Cost Study, 2017
• Oregon mill is first certified to make cross-laminated timber. September 11, 2015.
• 5 Myths About Cross Laminated Timber, 2014

Other Wood Products

• Cars in the future could be made of WOOD: Scientists are using trees to develop materials that are tougher than steel. August 14, 2017.

Ecology

• Study refutes findings behind challenge to Sierra Nevada forest restoration. May 17, 2017.

History

• History of the Tahoe National Forest. 1982

Data & Research

• Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming, 2017.
• LAO Report: Improving California's Forest and Watershed Management. April 2018
• A Very Detailed, Interactive Map of Chicago’s Tree Canopy. August 14, 2017.
• Use of linear programming to optimize the social, environmental, and economic impacts of using woody feedstocks for pellet and torrefied pellet production. May 26, 2016.
• What the West’s trees tell us. May 16, 2016.
• Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles. December, 2015.
• US Forest Service, General Technical Report (GTR) - 237. 2012.
• US Forest Service, General Technical Report (GTR) - 220. 2009.

Policy

• Recommendations to Expand Wood Products Markets in California. October 2017.
• Western Governor's Association Policy Resolutions. July 11. 2017.
• California Tree Die Off Prompts Review Of Management Policies. January 26, 2017.
• CalFire California Forest Carbon Plan Draft for Public Review. January 2017.
• California Forest Watershed Alliance Unveils Policy Platform With Website and Video. January 26, 2017
• California is about to revolutionize climate policy … again. May 3, 2017.
• Bill to Aid Water Supply by Restoring Forests. June 23, 2016.
• CA Assembly Votes to Recognize Forests as Part of State’s Water System. June 6, 2016.
• State of Emergency for California Forests. December, 2015.

Unintended consequences

• The new gold rush: Loggers see money growing on millions of dead trees. February 6, 2017.

Tools

• myForest - Sylva Foundation

Other places with similar fire problems

• Around the Mediterranean, the Fire This Time. August 7, 2017.

Other groups working on similar issues

• National Forest Foundation
• Sierra Nevada Conservancy
• The Nature Conservancy
• Alpine Biomass Committee
• Allotrope Partners
• Nevada Pinyon-Juniper Partnership
• Sierra to California All-Lands Enhancement (SCALE) Project
• Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative
• Lake Tahoe West
• Sagehen Forest Project
• Northern Sierra Partnership

Alternate views

• Let Forest Fires Burn? What the Black-Backed Woodpecker Knows; Chad Hansen. August 6, 2017.
• Gov. Brown's Wildfire Program Will Only Make Things Worse, Chad Hansen and Char Miller. May 25, 2018