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In this week\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with David Wear, a nonresident senior fellow and director of the Land Use, Forestry, and Agriculture Program at Resources for the Future, about the ability of US forests to remove and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Wear discusses how US forests fit into emissions-reduction efforts, different approaches for estimating the amount of carbon dioxide that US forests can sequester, the implications of using different modeling approaches in designing policy, and the potential of afforestation and forest protection as carbon offsets.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cLand Use Change, No-Net-Loss Policies, and Effects on Carbon Dioxide Removals\u201d by David N. Wear and Matthew Wibbenmeyer; https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/land-use-change-no-net-loss-policies-and-effects-on-carbon-dioxide-removals/\n\n\u201cManaging Wildfires to Combat Climate Change\u201d episode of Resources Radio with David Wear; https://www.resources.org/resources-radio/managing-wildfires-to-combat-climate-change-with-david-wear/\n\n\u201cA Sand County Almanac\u201d by Aldo Leopold; https://www.aldoleopold.org/about/aldo-leopold/sand-county-almanac/\n\n\u201cThe American West as Living Space\u201d by Wallace Stegner; https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-American-West-as-Living-Space\n\n\u201cThe Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle\u201d by Heidi Blake; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/the-great-cash-for-carbon-hustle