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2 years ago NCX response: We appreciate the detailed comments raised about the absence of HWP accounting in the initial draft of our methodology. The carbon stored in trees is released into the atmosphere when a tree dies, some of it almost instantaneously and sometimes over years to decades. We believe it is important to account for all reasonable pools of emissions related to a harvest, and our revised methodology takes the storage of carbon in, and subsequent release of carbon from, harvest wood products into account.
Commenter Organization: Wagner Forest Management, Ltd.
Commenter: Daniel H. Hudnut
2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: 8
Comment: In Table 5-1, the proponent states that inclusion of wood products is "not required as harvest deferral leads only to a shift in the harvested wood products decay curve" - meaning that there is no difference in the amount of timber harvested. See also Leakage -2 item below. Also, regardless of the effect on a participating landowner's property, the methodology will not yield any reduction in the amount of timber harvested in the region (or globally). A small proportion of all landowners harvests their timber in any given year. Participation by some landowners in a short-term harvest deferral program will not have a meaningful impact on available timber to logging contractors or consuming mills.
Proposed Change: Make claims regarding timber harvest consistent. Clarify claim that while older forests store more carbon overall, they grow less on a percentage basis than younger forests. See discussion of growth rate below.