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Documents, Data, and Code. The NCX Methodology For Improved Forest Management (IFM) Through Short-Term Harvest Deferral.
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Public Comment: 144 (Anonymous) #144

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ncx-gitbot commented 1 year ago

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2021 Deferred Harvest Methodology Section: 8.3

Comment: A leakage rate of 10% is a massive underestimate. Current research points to longer programs having a leakage rate of 30-50%, so I could only imagine that a short-term program would have much higher leakage

Proposed Change: Increase leakage to 50%

ncx-gitbot commented 1 year ago

NCX response: Leakage is poorly studied across existing IFM projects, especially short-term harvest deferral projects. We agree that leakage is a possible outcome of purposefully delaying a harvest. Based on comments received, we have updated the methodological approach to include a more conservative deduction. We look forward to working with other developers and academic researchers to explore methods of measuring leakage directly in the future.