Industrial Strategies Division
2020 SB 901 Report: Carbon Impacts from Fire and Forest Management
December 31, 2020: Draft Report Available: Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Contemporary Wildfire and Forest Management Activities
Pursuant to Senate Bill 901 - Wildfire, CARB staff has made the following report available for informal public comment and review.
Public Comments Received
- Anonymous Native Resident of Northern California
- Biofuelwatch
- Center for Biological Diversity and The John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute
- Fire Restoration Group and Sierra Forest Legacy
- Greenleaf Power
- John Kessler Forestry
- Sierra Business Council
- Southern California Gas
December 1, 2020: Public Webinar: Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Forest Management Activities, Contemporary Wildfire, and Historical Fire
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) staff hosted a public webinar on staff’s estimation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from contemporary wildfire and forest management activities, and a presentation on historical fire activity before modern fire suppression. In the first part of the webinar, staff presented the methodology and estimation results of GHG emissions from wildfire and prescribed burn, as well as the amount of ecosystem carbon transformed by forest management activities (which may include tree harvest, removals, and planting; prescribed burn; and other vegetation fuels management to reduce fire risk). In the second part of the webinar, staff presented a scientific literature review of quantitative historical fire data that are needed for modeling fire emissions. The data and literature review focuses on the 1,400 years before modern fire suppression began in 1910.
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Time: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Pacific Time)
Hour 1, staff presented GHG Emissions of Wildfire and Forest Management Activities.
Hour 2, staff presented Summary of Scientific Literature Review of Historical Fire Activity.