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Tree Planting Has the Potential to Increase Carbon Sequestration Capacity of Forests in the United States BRIEF REPORT Tree planting has the potential to increase carbon sequestration capacity of forests in the United States BRIEF REPORT Grant M. Domkea,1, Sonja N. Oswaltb, Brian F. Waltersa, and Randall S. Morinc aForest Service Northern Research Station, US Department of Agriculture, St. Paul, MN 55108; bForest Service Southern Research Station, US Department of Agriculture, Knoxville, TN 37919; and cForest Service Northern Research Station, US Department of Agriculture, York, PA 17402 Edited by James A. Estes, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, and approved August 18, 2020 (received for review June 1, 2020) Several initiatives have been proposed to mitigate forest loss and and challenges for increasing C sequestration capacity on existing climate change through tree planting as well as maintaining and forestland. restoring forest ecosystems. These initiatives have both inspired This work provides context and estimates for assessments of and been inspired by global assessments of tree and forest the potential contributions of trees and forests to mitigate attributes and their contributions to offset carbon dioxide (CO2) forest loss and climate change through tree planting in the emissions. Here we use data from more than 130,000 national United States. forest inventory plots to describe the contribution of nearly 1.4 trillion trees on forestland in the conterminous United States to Results mitigate CO2 emissions and the potential to enhance carbon se- There are an estimated 1.38 trillion live trees (±8.71 billion live questration capacity on productive forestland. Forests and har- trees, 95% CI) across all size classes on 256.3 Mha of forestland vested wood products uptake the equivalent of more than 14% (±0.65 Mha) in the CONUS (Fig. 1A). Collectively, there are an of economy-wide CO2 emissions in the United States annually, and estimated 71,808 million metric tons (MMT) carbon dioxide there is potential to increase carbon sequestration capacity by (CO2)(±901.19 MMT CO2) stored in all live trees (aboveground ∼ − ± 20% ( 187.7 million metric tons [MMT] CO2 9.1 MMT CO2) and belowground) and they sequestered an estimated 546.7 per year by fully stocking all understocked productive forestland. MMT CO2 (±31.6 MMT CO2) in the year 2018 (Fig. 1 A and D). However, there are challenges and opportunities to be considered The CONUS-wide estimates translate to 280 MT CO2 stored per with tree planting. We provide context and estimates from the hectare across forestland in the CONUS with annual net se- United States to inform assessments of the potential contribu- −1 −1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES questration of 2.13 MT CO2·ha ·y . tions of forests in climate change mitigation associated with tree There are opportunities on existing forestland to increase the planting. contribution of forests to climate change mitigation. Nearly 33 Mha (±0.47 Mha) of productive forestland (i.e., timberland) is carbon | climate | emissions | removals | forest inventory classified as nonstocked or poorly stocked (<35% of the forest- land area is occupied by trees; hereafter referred to as under- orest ecosystems are the largest terrestrial carbon (C) sink on stocked) with live trees and seedlings (Fig. 2A). A disproportionate FEarth (1), and their management has been recognized as a amount (44%, 14.5 Mha) of the understocked timberland is in SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE cost-effective strategy for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. the western states, which only represents 24% (49.1 Mha) of the In the United States, forestland represents nearly one-third of total timberland land area in the United States. The under- total land area (Fig. 1 A and B), and forests store more than stocked timberlands in the United States store less than 30% of three decades of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from economy- the aboveground live-tree CO2 per unit area that fully stocked wide fossil fuels (2). The contribution of forestland to emissions forests store (Fig. 2 B and C), and the sequestration capacity is offsets in the United States has remained relatively stable since substantially diminished—less than 20% of fully stocked — B 2005 despite steady declines in economy-wide CO2 emissions forests due to the limited area occupied by trees (Fig. 2 over that period (2). This suggests that the forest C sink in the and C). United States, which is driven in large part by forest regrowth Currently, there is federal infrastructure to produce and plant following harvest and natural disturbance (3, 4), is slowly ∼65 million seedlings per year, and state and private capacity is diminishing (4–7). ∼1.1 billion tree seedlings per year (11). Collectively, the esti- Recently proposed afforestation and reforestation activities mated 1.2 billion trees planted on forestland sequester between D may accelerate live-tree sequestration of C stocks in forests (7, 8) 16 MMT CO2 and 28 MMT CO2 each year (Fig. 2 ). Spatially and accumulation of C in soils (9), and potentially expand for- concentrating current tree planting capacity to fully stock non- estland (10), providing a multitude of ecosystem services (8). stocked timberland, rather than planting the same number of However, practical constraints and social and economic com- trees over larger areas, provides the greatest potential to increase petition with other land uses and management objectives may C sequestration capacity, particularly on private timberland D limit implementation (5, 7). While uncertainty remains around (Fig. 2 ). In addition, increasing tree planting capacity to fully climate change mitigation strategies, carbon markets have the stock timberlands can potentially reduce the current reforesta- potential to influence the priority placed on land management to tion backlog on federal forestland, increase total forestland se- promote forest C storage (5). questration capacity, and contribute to C storage (Fig. 2). We use data from more than 130,000 national forest inventory (NFI) plots (Fig. 1B) to empirically describe the contribution of Author contributions: G.M.D. designed research; G.M.D., S.N.O., B.F.W., and R.S.M. per- nearly 1.4 trillion trees on forestland in the conterminous United formed research; G.M.D., S.N.O., B.F.W., and R.S.M. analyzed data; and G.M.D. wrote States (CONUS) to emissions offsets as well as opportunities and the paper. challenges to further enhance sequestration capacity. Specifi- The authors declare no competing interest. cally, we 1) describe the current status and extent of forestland in This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 the CONUS, 2) characterize the current forestland C sink in the (CC BY). 1 CONUS relative to economy-wide CO2 emissions (non-CO2 To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: [email protected]. gases were not included in this study), and 3) highlight opportunities First published September 21, 2020. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.2010840117 PNAS | October 6, 2020 | vol. 117 | no. 40 | 24649–24651 Downloaded by guest on September 30, 2021 A Forest area Total trees Carbon stocks Annual flux Tree size class (M ha) (billions) (MMT CO2) (MMT CO2) Trees (dbh ≥ 12.7 cm) 90.4 (±0.37) 54,654 (±1,953.16) -457.5 (±31.57) 256.3 (±0.65) Saplings (2.54 cm ≤ dbh < 12.7 cm) 257.0 (±1.81) 14,633 (±45.91) -83.7 (±0.52) Seedlings (dbh < 2.54 cm) 1,033.0 (±8.51) 2,519 (±8.03) -5.5 (±0.04) TOTALS 1,381.0 (±8.71) 71,806 (±901.19) -546.7 (±31.58) B C D Annual Flux (MMT CO ) Forest land FIA forest land plot 2 Forest land -54 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 10 Note: FIA plot locations are approximate Fig. 1. Estimates (with 95% CI) of (A) forestland area, number of trees, CO2 stocks, and annual flux by tree size class in the CONUS, and distribution of (B) forestland in the CONUS, (C) approximate locations of national forest inventory plots with at least one forested condition (n = 130,250) in the CONUS used in the study, and (D) total greenhouse gas emissions and removals on forestland by US state in 2018. Negative estimates indicate net C uptake (i.e., a net removal of C from the atmosphere). Discussion stable, while total economy-wide CO2 emissions in the United The contribution of existing forestland and harvested wood States have declined (2). Considering trends in natural and an- products to climate change mitigation in the United States is thropogenic disturbances (5), declines in forest regrowth are unmistakable (1, 5, 6); however, the sink has remained relatively likely to continue in the absence of forest management (5, 10). A B Overstocked Area of poorly stocked (100+%) and non-stocked timberland Fully stocked (1000 ha) (60 - 99%) 1 - 200 201 - 400 Medium stocked 401 - 800 (35 - 59%) 801 - 1400 1401 - 3000 Poorly stocked (10 - 34%) Proportion of poorly stocked and non-stocked area by state and ownership class Nonstocked 0.05 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 (0 - 9%) 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 Federal State and Local Private Tree density C Overstocked D (100+%) Fully stocked (60 - 99%) Fully stocked (60 - 99%) Medium stocked Medium stocked (35 - 59%) (35 - 59%) Poorly stocked (10 - 34%) Poorly stocked Nonstocked (10 - 34%) (0 - 9%) -20 -15 -10 -5 0 0 50 100 150 200 250 -30 -20 -10 0 0 500 1000 1500 2000 Annual net live tree CO2 Live tree CO2 density Sequestration potential Reforestation area -1 -1 -1 stock change (MT ha yr ) (MT ha ) (MMT CO2) (1000 ha) Fig. 2. Distribution of (A) understocked timberland by ownership in the CONUS, (B) tree density by ownership and all live stocking on timberland in the CONUS (number of trees), (C) aboveground live-tree CO2 density and mean annual net CO2 flux by ownership and all live-tree stocking in the CONUS, and (D) reforestation area and CO2 sequestration potential—based on current tree planting capacity in the CONUS—whenincreasingstockingontimberlandfromnonstockedtopoorlystocked,medium stocked, or fully stocked.
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