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CARB Approves Carbon Credits for Clearcutting!!
On September 25, 2009 the California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved an addition to the
Forest Project Protocols allowing forest clearcutting as a rewardable forest management practice.
This new clearcutting paragraph is entirely inconsistent with, and explicitly contradicted by,
the definition of “natural forest management” in the same protocols, which requires forest
projects to “promote and maintain a diversity of native species and utilize management
practices that promote and maintain native forests comprised of multiple ages and mixed
native species at multiple landscape scales.” (Sec. 3.9.2). It is impossible for even-aged management,
particularly clearcutting, to meet those overarching requirements.
We need to publicly keep this discussion alive!!
Please write letters to the editor: to
letters@mercurynews.com, to
letters@latimes.com. Letters to Chronicle should use this page
http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/submissions/#1
for submission. LTEs should be less than 125 words and need to include your name and address.
Press Releases
Official CARB Press Release on Forest Protocols
Carbon Sequestration & Forests
Link to CARB Forest Protocols
Newspaper Coverage
San Jose Mercury News article on CARB Protocols vote
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