Sequestering Carbon Through Conversation and Community Burning: Converting Forest Fuels to Biochar

Sequestering Carbon Through Conversation and Community Burning: Converting Forest Fuels to Biochar

By Adam Gebauer

We all enjoy telling stories around a campfire, but what if that campfire was also a tool to improve timber practices and reduce carbon emissions? The Lands Council partnered with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians and others on a pilot project to reduce forest fuels and transform them to beneficial biochar. These pilot burns were a chance for the forest community to come together and look at the many potentials for biochar on the landscape along with some of the limitations to large scale implementation.