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Effects of wild land fuel treatments located in the Highway 50 corridor in El Dorado County
Effects of wild land fuel treatments located in the Highway 50 corridor in El Dorado County on future wildfire size…Learn More
TRPA Policy Assessment Services
For this project, SIG compiled a comprehensive database of every policy and regulation adopted by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency…Learn More
Waterfowl Habitat Condition Assessment
SIG’s wildlife biologists provided the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) with professional services for their Research and Analysis Division. Namely,…Learn More
Case study for the EU’s new renewable energy directive – wood pellet export from the US to the EU
SIG supports Navigant, an EU based environmental consulting group, in developing a work process to implement the EU’s new renewable…Learn More
Carbon offset development for a fuel switch bioenergy project
Koda Energy is a combined heat and power plant in Wisconsin. It provides process heat to surrounding industries. SIG is…Learn More
Avoided wildfire emissions from fuel treatments along Highway 50 in El Dorado County, California
The Highway 50 corridor in Eldorado County, California, is a crucial landscape feature to reduce the risk of megafires in…Learn More
Forest Carbon Resilience of Eastern Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) Salvage Harvesting in the Northeastern United States
The next major eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreak is likely to begin impacting the forests of the northeastern US…Learn More
Quantification of ecosystem services for Austrian state forests: Carbon
SIG provided expertise on carbon sequestration in Austrian state forests and was responsible for the conceptual design of the indicators…Learn More
Small-scale timberland evaluation tool development
SIG developed a timberland valuation assessment tool that allows for cost-effective investment analysis for small timberland tracts while still providing…Learn More
Modeling economic and carbon consequences of a shift to wood-based energy in a rural ‘cluster’; a network analysis in southeast Alaska
Southeast Alaskan forests previously harvested for timber are currently re-growing and require thinning to maintain ecosystem service benefits such as…Learn More
Using FIA forest inventory data to analyze forest carbon using CBM-CFS3
SIG was tasked by EPA to investigate the capacities of the Canadian forest carbon (C) dynamics model CBM-CFS3 to process…Learn More
Economic analysis of a poplar plantation to provide bioenergy feedstocks
In collaboration with the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), SIG assisted in a…Learn More
A global meta-analysis of forest bioenergy greenhouse gas emission accounting studies
The potential greenhouse gas benefits of displacing fossil energy with biofuels are driving policy development in the absence of complete…Learn More
Accounting Framework for Assessing Biogenic CO2 Emissions from Stationary Sources
SIG provided technical support to EPA in developing an accounting framework for CO2 emissions from stationary sources. This work included…Learn More
Carbon Life Cycle Assessments for Wood Pellets from Oregon
Thomas Buchholz and Dave Schmidt provided a carbon life cycle analysis for biomass production under various restoration thinning scenarios in…Learn More
California’s 4th Climate Assessment: Innovations in Forest Carbon
The second report that SIG and partners prepared for California’s 4th Climate Assessment, is entitled “Innovations in Measuring and Monitoring…Learn More