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August 18, 2010
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Environment & Energy News Reducing forest fire risk by thinning thickets of understory can have many benefits for communities, but in the short term, providing carbon offsets for this does not appear to be justified, according to government-funded research to be published this fall.
During the past four years, a team of researchers tried to quantify how removing smaller fuels from forests and conducting prescribed burns helps stave off intense wildfires and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. If carbon were valued that way, they said, then landowners could receive carbon credits to help fund their management practices. But the researchers concluded that they can't make that case.
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