Green Horizons

The National Wildlife Federation and the Soil and Water Conservation Society will host a one-day workshop, "Carbon Markets - Expanding Opportunities/Valuing Co-benefits," in conjunction with the SWCS annual meeting Wednesday, July 21, at the Hilton at the Ballpark in St. Louis. This event will focus on the opportunities being created by the expected passage of federal legislation creating a mandatory cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions. Both the morning and afternoon sessions have topics of special interest to forest landowners:

Morning Session: Group Two - Forestry

• Improved Forest Management Doubles Carbon Sequestration Rates. Peter Becker, Eastern Ozarks Forestry Council

• Forest Carbon Market Success Stories, Partnering Carbon with Conservation Easements...Lessons to Grow On. Matthew Smith, Finite Carbon Corporation

• Agroforestry: Accounting for the Carbon Services from Working Trees. Michele Schoeneberger, USDA Forest Service/NRCS National Agroforestry Center

Afternoon Session: Group Four - Tools and Calculators

• Estimating Potential Carbon Sequestration and Marginal Costs for Afforestation of Agricultural Land in the Northeastern U.S. Jonathan Winsten, Winrock International

• EcoMarket Infrastructure: Using a LIDAR Based Approach to Quantify Carbon & Non-carbon Forest Attributes. Chuck Anderson, ImageTree

For more information or to register, call Robin at 515-289-2331 x118.