Forests of Vermont and New Hampshire 2012

Morin, Randall S.; Barnett, C.J.; Butler, Brett J.; Crocker, Susan J.; Domke, Grant M.; Hansen, Mark; Hatfield, Mark A.; Horton, Jonathan L.; Kurtz, Cassandra M.; Lister, Tonya W.; Miles, Patrick D.; Nelson, Mark D.; Piva, Ronald J.; Wilmot, Sandy; Widmann, Richard H.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Zaino, Robert.

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“…This report systematically developed some well‐ordered strategies and summarized the conservation activities of local organizations and agencies since the 1990s, leading to 21% of the watershed (about 56,100 acres) permanently protected by 2004. Morin et al () pointed out that approximately 15,000 acres of net forest were gained as a result of reforestation and succession in former agricultural areas from 2007 to 2012. Hence, corresponding evidence of opposite vegetation cover change could be detected in these regional‐scale studies.…”

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“…Although some regions are experiencing modest population growth, low‐density residential and commercial development still has been trending upward in recent decades, which leads to a large land transformation and increased water consumption (Clay, Deininger, Hafner, & Nedeau, ). Forest land area is projected to decline by 3.2%–5.8% and 8.4%–11.5% in Vermont and New Hampshire from 2010 to 2060, respectively (Morin et al, ). Decreasing vegetation cover caused by population growth and urbanization can have a large influence on run‐off as hydrological processes are altered by evapotranspiration, interception, and infiltration (Archer et al, ).…”

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Quantifying the impacts of climate change and land use/cover change on runoff in the lowerConnecticut River Basin

Wang

Stephenson

2018

Hydrological Processes

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Climate change and land use and cover change (LUCC) have had great impacts on watershed hydrological processes. Although previous studies have focused on quantitative assessment of the impacts of climate change and human activities on decreasing run‐off change, few studies have examined regions that have significant increasing run‐off due to both climate variability and land cover change. We show that annual run‐off had a significant increasing trend from 1956 to 2014 in the U.S. lower Connecticut River Basin. Abrupt change point years of annual run‐off for four subbasins are detected by nonparametric Mann–Kendall–Sneyers test and reconfirmed by the double mass curve. We then divide the study period into 2 subperiods at the abrupt change point year in the early 1970s for each subbasin. The Choudhury–Yang equation based on Budyko hypothesis was used to calculate precipitation and potential evapotranspiration, and landscape elasticities of run‐off. The results show that the difference in mean annual run‐off between 2 subperiods for each subbasin ranged from 102 to 165.6 mm. Climate variations were the primary drivers of increasing run‐off in this region. Quantitative contributions of precipitation and potential evapotranspiration in all subbasins are 106.5% and −3.6% on average, respectively. However, LUCC contributed both positively and negatively to run‐off: −18.6%, −13.3%, and 10.1% and 9.9% for 4 subbasins. This may be attributed to historical LUCC occurring after the abrupt change point in each subbasin. Our results provide critical insight on the hydrological dynamics of north‐east tidal river systems to communities and policymakers engaged in water resources management in this region.

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Quantifying the impacts of climate change and land use/cover change on runoff in the lowerConnecticut River Basin

Wang

Stephenson

2018

Hydrological Processes

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“…In the nearby states of Vermont and New Hampshire, Morin et al (2015) reported the presence of invasive plants in 24.5 percent of Vermont plots and 11.2 percent of New Hampshire plots. The relatively high number of IPS across New York is a concern as these invaders can cause detrimental forest changes.…”

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New York Forests, 2012

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This report summarizes the second annual inventory of New York's forests, conducted in 2008-2012. New York's forests cover 19.0 million acres; 15.9 million acres are classified as timberland and 3.1 million acres as reserved and other forest land. Forest land is dominated by the maple/beech/ birch forest-type group that occupies more than half of the forest land. The sound wood volume on timberland has been rising and is currently 37.4 billion cubic feet, enough to produce saw logs equivalent to 93.7 billion board feet. On timberland, the average annual growth in volume of live trees outpaced removals by a ratio of 2.1:1. The net change in volume averaged 1.1 percent per year. This report includes additional information on forest attributes, land use, forest fragmentation, forest ownership, forest health indicators, timber products, statistics, and quality assurance of data collection. Detailed information on forest inventory methods and data quality are available online at http://dx

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“…In addition to programmatic factors, small property sizes prevent small forest landowners from participating in California’s emerging carbon market, particularly in the Northeast, where family forest owners live on an average of just 50.66 acres of forest[ 8 ]. With approximately 61% of forest land in Vermont in the hands of family forest owners, low participation removes large quantities of valuable forest carbon from offset markets[ 19 ]. Therefore, it is important to better understand small landowners’ preferences for forest carbon credit protocol design in order to encourage their participation in the carbon offset market.…”

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Small-scale forestry and carbon offset markets: An empirical study of Vermont Current Use forest landowner willingness to accept carbon credit programs

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This study investigates the preferences of small forest landowners regarding forest carbon credit programs while documenting characteristics of potentially successful frameworks. We designed hypothetical carbon credit programs with aggregated carbon offset projects and requirements of existing voluntary and compliance protocols in mind. We administered a mail survey to 992 forest landowners in Vermont’s Current Use Program utilizing best-worst choice, a novel preference elicitation technique, to elicit their preferences about these programs. We found that small forest landowners see revenue as the most important factor in a carbon credit program and the duration of the program as the least important factor. Landowners reported that shorter program duration, higher revenue, and lower withdrawal penalties positively impact their willingness to accept forest carbon credit programs. Notably, our study includes carbon credit program implementer as a key program attribute, allowing us to quantify landowners’ tradeoffs between non-profit, for-profit, and government organizations. Overall, we found that landowners significantly prefer working with a non-profit organization. Based on monetary estimates of willingness-to-accept compensation, our results suggest that aggregated forest carbon offset projects incorporating small forest landowners could be piloted successfully in Vermont by non-profit organizations while maintaining relatively strict guidelines of existing carbon offset protocols.

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Forests of Vermont and New Hampshire 2012

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Quantifying the impacts of climate change and land use/cover change on runoff in the lowerConnecticut River Basin

Quantifying the impacts of climate change and land use/cover change on runoff in the lowerConnecticut River Basin

New York Forests, 2012

Small-scale forestry and carbon offset markets: An empirical study of Vermont Current Use forest landowner willingness to accept carbon credit programs

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