Summary/Abstract
California’s Forest Practices Act encourages carbon sequestration in California’s forests. Consistent with this mandate, California forest and fire management authorities (the “Forest Climate Action Team”) published a California forest carbon plan, outlining research and management objectives to establish California’s forests as a carbon sink. The plan also describes goals and related specific actions to improve overall forest health, enhance carbon storage resilience, increase sequestration, and reduce GHG emissions, and provides principles and policies to guide and support those actions. These principles and policies, which are grounded in existing laws and regulations, elevate enhancement of carbon sequestration and storage and reduction of black carbon and GHG emissions alongside the broader range of public benefits California’s forests provide.