Why Forests Need to Be Enlisted in Climate Change Actions
By Dominick A. DellaSala / On September 26th, 2013
"Forests have a vital role to play in overcoming this challenge. Rainforests store vast amounts of carbon. That's true across the planet, and in America, too. Our Tongass National Forest, a temperate Alaskan rainforest comprises only 2% of America's forest land base, but may hold as much as 8% of all the carbon contained in the forests of the United States."—Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack
Forests and Carbon Cycles