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Manage soils to maintain or increase soil organic carbon

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Approach

Manage soils to maintain or increase soil organic carbon

Tactics

  • Maintain diverse native soil biology (bacteria
  • fungi)
  • Manage above ground vegetation and forest floor organic material within range of sustainability of soil productivity.
  • Conserve carbon and organic matter during soil-disturbing practices such as oil and gas development
  • vegetation management
  • and mining operations.

Citation

Halofsky, J.E.; Peterson, D.L.; Ho, J.J.; Little, N.J.; Joyce, L.A., eds. (2018). Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-375. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.