News Finding: When the transport and assembly of steel, concrete, and brick products is considered, its share of fossil fuel burning is closer to 20 percent to 30 percent, Oliver said.
Paper Finding: Harvesting sustainably across a landscape creates no net loss in forest carbon because the same amount of wood is harvested each year as growth.
News Context: "This study shows still another reason to appreciate forests -- and another reason to not let them be permanently cleared for agriculture," said Chadwick Oliver, the Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, director of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry at F&ES and lead author of the new study. When the transport and assembly of steel, concrete, and brick products is considered, its share of fossil fuel burning is closer to 20 percent to 30 percent, Oliver said. According to Oliver, carefully managed harvesting also reduces the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires.
Paper Context: It also shows the MAI and cumulative carbon sequestered in stems on the average hectare of the forest (assuming total forest carbon is proportional to stem carbon, described earlier). Harvesting sustainably across a landscape creates no net loss in forest carbon because the same amount of wood is harvested each year as growth. However, the amount of wood that can be harvested sustainably-and the amount of wood products to save CO 2 (and FF)-varies considerably depending on the target harvest age in a regulated forest (Figure 9 ), even though all harvest ages could be sustainable.