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The CC Lab's Biologic Program aims to build trust and quality in biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS) approaches broadly by conducting foundational science, forming cross-stakeholder networks, and developing solutions to industry-wide bottlenecks. To start out, we are focusing on forests at risk of severe wildfire in the American West. Over the next decade, these overstocked forests will require ecological thinning and broadcast burning across tens of millions of acres to reduce the risk of severe, catastrophic fire. These management activities will generate large volumes of small-diameter, low-value wood that will otherwise be burned in piles or left to decay. In forestry residues alone, there are likely to be over 2 gigatonnes CO2e contained in woody biomass destined fro pile burning or rapid decay by 2032. We are supporting the development of the industry that is investigating different pathways to hold this carbon safely and durably in the biosphere. This process involves partnering to develop trusted science and measurement, generating understanding of the context-dependencies of success across methods, and supporting demonstration of new technologies at scale. In the coming months, we're looking to: - Continue supporting the development of the BiCRS field, especially as it relates to slowing the decomposition of woody biomass - Publish open-source tools to help translate science into real-world, measurable, and verifiable carbon removals - Advance our nation-wide field experiment studying simple, cheap, and scalable treatments for delaying the decomposition of woody biomass - Pilot technologies that can utilize biomass to generate energy and synthetic fuels, while also capturing the resulting carbon Sinead Crotty Justin Freiberg Leah Clayton #BiCRS #CDR #naturalclimatesolutions #forests #carbonremoval

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