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Title:
Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2021: Estimates and quantitative uncertainty for individual states, regional ownership groups, and National Forest System regions
Author(s):
Walters, Brian F.; Domke, Grant M.; Greenfield, Eric J.; Smith, James E.; Ogle, Stephen M.
Publication Year:
2023
How to Cite:
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Walters, Brian F.; Domke, Grant M.; Greenfield, Eric J.; Smith, James E.; Ogle, Stephen M. 2023. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2021: Estimates and quantitative uncertainty for individual states, regional ownership groups, and National Forest System regions. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0020
Abstract:
As a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United States has been reporting an economy-wide inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals since the mid-1990s. Estimates of GHG emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands in the grassland category, and urban trees in settlements are compiled by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service researchers and are based primarily on National Forest Inventory (NFI) data collected and maintained by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program within the USDA Forest Service. The estimates of GHG emissions and removals provided in this publication are based on the compilation reported in the Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry chapter of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submission to the UNFCCC. Included in this package are 18 tables of estimates and 2 tables of quantitative uncertainties.

Keywords:
biota; environment; Climate change; Carbon; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Fire; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Monitoring; Resource inventory; Natural Resource Management & Use; Ecosystem services; greenhouse gas ; emissions and removals; carbon stocks; carbon net flux; forest carbon; woodland carbon; land use; land use change; drained organic soils; settlement trees; conterminous United States; Hawaii; Alaska
Related publications:
  • Domke, Grant M.; Walters, Brian F.; Giebink, Courtney L.; Greenfield, Eric J.; Smith, James E.; Nichols, Michael C.; Knott, Jon A.; Ogle, Stephen M.; Coulston, John W.; Steller, John. 2023. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, urban trees, and harvested wood products in the United States, 1990-2021. Resource Bulletin. WO-101. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington Office. 10 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/WO-RB-101
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [U.S. EPA]. 2023. Inventory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks: 1990–2021. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 430-R-23-002. Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Accessed 13 April 2023. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks-1990-2021
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