Climate change may cut US forest inventory by a fifth this century

Climate change may cut US forest inventory by a fifth this century

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230201134216.htm

Researchers say their findings show modest impacts on forest product prices through the end of the century, but suggest bigger impacts in terms of storing carbon in U.S. forests. Two-thirds of U.S. forests are classified as timberlands.

"We already see some inventory decline at baseline in our analysis, but relative to that, you could lose, additionally, as much as 23% of the U.S. forest inventory," said the study's lead author Justin Baker, associate professor of forestry and environmental resources at North Carolina State University. "That's a pretty dramatic change in standing forests."