Climate Change
Forest Carbon: A Reading List for Beginners
Landowner’s Guide to Carbon Sequestration Credits
Climate Change Field Guide for Northern MN Forests
Regenerative Agriculture & Sustainable Forestry Report
Keep Your Woods Healthy for Tomorrow
MFRC MN Forest Carbon Dashboard
Carbon in Minnesota Trees and Woodlands
Forest & Forest Product Carbon Benefit
New! UofM’s AI-CLIMATE Institute
2023 U.S. Renewable Carbon Resources Assessment
PNAS: Natural Climate Solutions
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A Landowner’s Guide to Carbon Sequestration Credits
This guide offers a path for local landowners to earn additional income while helping diminish adverse effects of global climate change through implementation of carbon sequestration and other stackable incentives. This document is a tool to help landowners make the decision whether or not to enroll their land in carbon sequestration. It discusses background information on carbon sequestration and global climate change; current methods of sequestration, including forestry, conservation planting, methane capture and others; and steps a land owner must take, including contracts, verification, and implementation, once they have made the decision to enroll their lands in a sequestration project.
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Climate Change Field Guide for Northern MN Forests
Climate change is a growing concern for forests across Minnesota. Foresters, land managers, and landowners are considering how to prepare for future conditions and how to evaluate risks for particular sites. This field guide is designed as a quick reference on climate change for northern Minnesota forests. The intent is to highlight key information that can be used during field visits or forest planning. We hope that this guide will help foresters consider climate change risks together with local site characteristics, and also that it will help people design adaptation actions that help meet management goals.
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Defining Regenerative Agriculture and the Intersection with Sustainable Forestry
This report explores the definition of regenerative agriculture, including the expression of principles and practices that may intersect with the greater use of trees and forestry within food systems. The integration of farming and forestry at greater scales may provide significant social, environmental, and economic benefits. However, there are substantial barriers to achieving this integration that exist within public agencies, policies and programs, research and educational institutions, and markets.
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Keep Your Woods Healthy for Tomorrow
A Tool to Assess Risk in Minnesota’s Changing Climate
Maintaining a healthy woodland is getting harder and harder. In today’s world, there are an increasing number of stresses on your woodland. Despite this, you still depend on your woods for many benefits such as clean water, wildlife habitat, timber, and recreation. One of these stresses is climate change. Our climate is changing at a pace faster than at any time known in history. While woodlands are adaptable, the pace of change may overwhelm the forest’s ability to adjust. Landowners will need to consider how to prepare and respond appropriately.
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Carbon Capture Technologies and Natural Climate Solutions: 1+1 = 3
This report provides an introduction to technologies for CDR, the policy and regulatory context, and the role of the forest and wood products sector. The investment in natural climate solutions has a direct impact on the forest and wood products sector as it can include investments in forestry, ecosystem maintenance and restoration, tree planting, and innovative wood products as strategies for sequestering carbon in the forest, storage in the built environment, and a more circular economic model with reduced climate impacts.
Minnesota Forest Carbon Interactive Dashboard
One of the many benefits that trees provide is removing carbon dioxide from the air. Carbon dioxide is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
