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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…
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TRPA Policy Assessment Services

For this project, SIG compiled a comprehensive database of every policy and regulation adopted by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency…
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Waterfowl Habitat Condition Assessment

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,…
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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…
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Carbon offset development for a fuel switch bioenergy project

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…
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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…
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Forest Carbon Resilience of Eastern Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) Salvage Harvesting in the Northeastern United States

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Economic analysis of a poplar plantation to provide bioenergy feedstocks

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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