TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparisons of carbon pools and economic profitability for managed ponderosa pine stands in Wyoming, USA
AU - Chatterjee, A.
AU - Mooney, S.
AU - Vance, G. F.
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - A forest carbon (C) sequestration project was conducted to evaluate the economic incentives that would be required by landowners to engage in C trading under different management regimes. Costs associated with joint management for C sequestration and timber would be valuable for establishing sound forest C trading systems. In this study, we calculated the C yield and amortized value of three Wyoming, ponderosa pine stands. The management practices examined were, unmanaged, even-aged (regeneration after clear-cut) and uneven-aged (selectively harvested). Costs and revenues associated with three stands were converted into 2006 real dollars using the all commodity producer price index to facilitate a comparison among the net revenues of three stands. Net revenues were annualized using a conservative annual interest rate of 4.5%. Our even-aged stand had the highest annual average C yield of 2.48 Mg·ha-1·a1, whereas, the uneven-aged stand had the lowest C accumulation (1.98 Mg·ha-1·a-1). Alternatively, the even-aged stand had the highest amortized net return of $276·ha-1·a-1 and the unmanaged stand had the lowest net return of $64 ·ha-1·a-1. On the plots examined, an annual payment of $22 for each additional Mg of C sequestered would encourage a change from uneven aged management to an unmanaged stand that sequesters additional C, in the absence of transactions costs.
AB - A forest carbon (C) sequestration project was conducted to evaluate the economic incentives that would be required by landowners to engage in C trading under different management regimes. Costs associated with joint management for C sequestration and timber would be valuable for establishing sound forest C trading systems. In this study, we calculated the C yield and amortized value of three Wyoming, ponderosa pine stands. The management practices examined were, unmanaged, even-aged (regeneration after clear-cut) and uneven-aged (selectively harvested). Costs and revenues associated with three stands were converted into 2006 real dollars using the all commodity producer price index to facilitate a comparison among the net revenues of three stands. Net revenues were annualized using a conservative annual interest rate of 4.5%. Our even-aged stand had the highest annual average C yield of 2.48 Mg·ha-1·a1, whereas, the uneven-aged stand had the lowest C accumulation (1.98 Mg·ha-1·a-1). Alternatively, the even-aged stand had the highest amortized net return of $276·ha-1·a-1 and the unmanaged stand had the lowest net return of $64 ·ha-1·a-1. On the plots examined, an annual payment of $22 for each additional Mg of C sequestered would encourage a change from uneven aged management to an unmanaged stand that sequesters additional C, in the absence of transactions costs.
KW - Wyoming
KW - amortized net revenue
KW - carbon sequestration
KW - ponderosa pine
KW - timber harvest
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U2 - 10.1007/s11676-010-0102-3
DO - 10.1007/s11676-010-0102-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78650065751
SN - 1007-662X
VL - 21
SP - 482
EP - 486
JO - Journal of Forestry Research
JF - Journal of Forestry Research
IS - 4
ER -