Carbon protection and fire risk reduction: toward a full accounting of forest carbon offsets

By M. Hurteau, G. Koch, B. Hungate. 2008

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A Polycentric Approach for Coping with Climate Change (2009, background): ““If, by contrast, that same forest is not thinned and instead experiences a catastrophic fire, the C stock baseline is simply reduced, as if no CO2 emissions had occurred during the fire” (Hurteau et al., 2008).”
Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass (2017, unknown): “However, the magnitude of this effect is highly uncertain at larger spatial scales, because fire prevention often leads to less frequent, but more damaging fires with larger biomass loads that could compensate for carbon gains 57,58 on longer time scales.”
The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth (2011, background): “…to reduce fire intensities, thereby decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon storage in some landscapes, has been proposed as a strategy to mitigate climate change (Williams et al., 2004; Hurteau et al., 2008), although the global benefit of these interventions remains unknown.”