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Graduate student mentor Elizabeth Wilson (left) and undergraduate fellow Madison Wigley (right) record pine needle fascicle lengths in a greenhouse experiment at Texas A&M University. Photo courtesy of Ayumi Hyodo.
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation Project (PINEMAP) is a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Coordinated Agricultural Project, Award # 2011-68002-30185. Photo courtesy of Tim Martin.
High school students participating in the University of Florida's Science Quest summer camp measure trees and calculate the amount of carbon stored in trees as part of the Project Learning Tree/PINEMAP Secondary Module activity "Counting the Carbon." Photo courtesy of Jessica Ireland.
University of Florida M.S. student Maxwell Wightman drills a hole to insert thermal dissipation sensor probes into a tree at the Tier III throughfall exclusion x fertilization site in Taylor County, Florida. Photo courtesy of Geoff Lokuta
Throughfall exclusion structures at the Tier III site in McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Photo courtesy of Duncan Wilson.
High school students participating in the University of Florida's Science Quest summer camp measure trees and calculate the amount of carbon stored in trees as part of the Project Learning Tree/PINEMAP Secondary Module activity "Counting the Carbon." Photo courtesy of Martha Monroe.
Throughfall exclusion structures at the Tier III site in McCurtain County, Oklahoma holding snow from a December 2012 storm. Photo courtesy of Casey Meek.

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Florida Forest Landowner Preferences for Carbon Offset Program Characteristics PDF document: Jose R. Soto, Damian C. Adams, and Francisco J. Escobedo. September 2014. Available online at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu as FOR 320. This publication explains how carbon-offset programs operate and examines the benefits of these programs, both to landowners and the environment. We review recent studies and address questions and concerns about these carbon-offset programs in Florida and the southeast US.

An Overview of Carbon Markets for Florida Forest Landowners PDF document: Jose R. Soto, Francisco J. Escobedo, and Damian C. Adams. July 2014. Available online from http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu as FOR 319. This publication discusses what a carbon market is and their brief history in the US; what the differences are in currently available forest carbon market certification programs; how and where carbon credits are sold; and what the current market trends are, with an emphasis on Florida forests.

Stewardship Ecosystem Services Study: Carbon Stores on Florida Forest Stewardship Program Lands PDF document: Nilesh Timilsina, Francisco J. Escobedo, Alison E. Adams, and Sonia Delphin. October 2013. Available online at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu as FOR 316. This publication provides information on the amount and value of C stored in Florida's FSP forests and adjacent non-FSP forests, as well as an overview of carbon dioxide accounting programs that provide incentives for storing carbon via forest management.

Valuing the Ecosystem Services of Florida's Forest Conservation Programs: The Economic Benefits of Protecting Water Quality PDF document: Melissa M. Kreye, Francisco J. Escobedo, Damian C. Adams, Taylor Stein, and Tatiana Borisova. April 2013. FOR309, available online at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. This publication presents the results of a benefit transfer approach used to estimate the value of the water quality protection services provided by forests in Florida.

To Plant or Not to Plant: New Timber Stand Drought Risk Assessment PDF document: A checklist produced to help Texas landowners assess their readiness for planting timber.

Challenges in Communicating Climate Change to Extension Audiences PDF document: This fact sheet, the first in a series on climate change, explains four key challenges of climate change communication to help Extension agents successfully provide science-based perspectives and avoid ideological conflicts and problems.

Strategies for Communicating Climate Change to Extension Audiences PDF document: This fact sheet is the second in a series on climate change communication. This fact sheet provides strategies in response to each of the four challenges presented in the first fact sheet in the series "Challenges in communicating Climate Change to Extension Audiences."

Risk Perception and Needs: Defining Extension's Climate Change Adaptation Role PDF document: Risk Perception and Needs: Defining Extension's Climate Change Adaptation Role. This third and final fact sheet in the series identifies differences in risk perception as a basis for addressing climate adaptation needs.

Climate Change Attitudes of Southern Foresters PDF document: This factsheet summarizes results from a survey of more than 1,000 Southern Foresters on their attitudes, observations and interest in learning more about Climate Change and its effect on forests.

Climate Change Attitudes of Florida's Forestry Professionals PDF document: A subsampling of responses to the region-wide survey - focuses on Florida's forestry professionals

Drought and Southern Forests: The Importance of Forest Health and Resiliency PDF document: Heather Dinon, Rachel Burnett, Eric Taylor, Ryan Boyles, William Hubbard, Mark Megalos, Sean Burns, and Leslie Boby. November 2013. Drought has shaped southern forests in the past and will continue to influence health, productivity, and resiliency of forests in the future. However, drought does not impact all forests equally. Some forests resist drought effects and recover quickly. Other forests seem to suffer severely. What causes this phenomenon? This fact sheet will define drought and its impacts to individual trees and forests as we explore the reason behind this question.

Healthy Forests: Invasive Plants and Your Forests PDF document: Hilary Cole, Mark Megalos, and Christina Temple Published by North Carolina Cooperative Extension

Healthy Forests: Managing for Resilience PDF document: Hilary Cole, Heather Dinon, Mark Megalos, and Christina Temple Published by North Carolina Cooperative Extension

Protecting Your Forest Asset: Managing Risks in Changing Times PDF document: A Regional Peer Reviewed Technology Bulletin published by Southern Regional Extension Forestry SREF-FM-018

Southern Pine Plantations Store Carbon PDF document: This factsheet discusses the mechanisms through which trees and forests store carbon and why it is important to forest landowners. Nearly a third of all forests in the United States are located in the South.

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