Estimation of Sequestered Carbon in King County Forests. College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Informe Final 2002. King County, Dept. of Natural Resources.

TURNBLOM, ERIC; AMOROSO, MARIANO; CEDER, KEVIN; LIPPKE, BRUCE; MASON, CHARLES; MCCARTER, JIM

2001-10-01/2002-06-30

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Biológica

Produccion y sanidad forestal-Forestacion

The purpose of this project was to produce both a current and near-term future inventory of carbonsequestered in trees on forested landscapes in King County, Washington, U.S.A. Recognizing that theremay be differences between predominant management activities on lands with different owners, and to make the study compatible with other reports generated at the state and county level, the inventory was stratified by ownership.The process used to assess sequestered carbon required three steps. The first step was to acquire the inventory data sets to be used and to pre-process them into a format that could be used with existing and emerging analysis tools. Second, a realistic categorization of forestland in King County into the recognized ownership classes was made. In the third step, the inventory data was synchronized to the year 2000, which involved simulating growth of the forest and its dynamics on older inventory records to update them to the present, then converting the common year updated inventory into carbon equivalents.