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Carbon Sequestration Data Sources

The current and potential carbon storage and flux of actual vegetation have been examined in the United States using data from the USDA Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis databases (Miles and others 2001) and models such as FORCARB (Heath and Birsey 1993, Plantinga and Birdsey 1993). FORCARB provides historical estimates and projections of carbon in forest ecosystems and harvested wood; an explanation of the uncertainty associated with FORCARB projections can be found in Heath and Smith (2000). Baseline carbon sequestration projections are predicated on preliminary results from the updated work of Haynes and others (1995).