On October 27, 2021, CARB published this 7-page Q&A to address questions for the U.S. Forests compliance offset protocols. The Q&A cover AB 32 criteria, the Forest Buffer Account, and CarbonPlan's critique paper.
This webpage also provides access to a paper by Sandra Brown, David Shoch, Tim Pearson, and Matt Delaney of Winrock International. Their report entitled "Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Forestry Carbon Projects in California" was prepared for the California Energy Commission as contracted work for the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) in 2004.