Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers |
Natural Climate Solutions Project
Framingham ● Hudson ● Natick
Forests
Spotlight: Forest Carbon
Forest Carbon and carbon storage were considerations of the SuAsCo NCS Project. Below are resources that introduce and discuss this work. We developed the information below to help the communities to value their existing and future forests.
Spotlight: Suzanne Simard
Suzanne Simard is the author of Finding the Mother Tree. Below are resources that introduce and discuss her work. Themes in this book will be present in the SuAsCo Recommended Projects.
More on the Wood Wide Web
Articles
The Conversation
Smithsonian Magazine
Using Our Forests to Fight Climate Change,
CommonWealth Magazine
Visualizing Carbon Storage in Earth's Ecosystems,
Visual Capitalist
Metrowest Conservation Alliance
Trees? Yes, please. How forest bathing can help you heal,
Boston Globe
Exploring How and Why Trees "Talk" to Each Other,
Yale Environment 360
Why Keeping Mature Forests Intact is Key to the Climate Fight,
Yale Environment 360
The Conversation
Trees: Our Mental, Physical, Climate Change Antidote,
WBUR
Don't Burn Trees to Fight Climate Change - Let Them Grow,
The New Yorker
Biomass is false solution to climate change,
CommonWealth Magazine
Forest-Climate Working Group Policy Platform for 117th Congress,
Forest-Climate Working Group
Northeast Wilderness Trust
Using Trees and Vegetation to Reduce Heat Islands
US EPA
https://www.epa.gov/heatislands/using-trees-and-vegetation-reduce-heat-islands