What tools are available for carbon inventory, management, and reporting?
Forest Service scientists have developed a number of tools, to help you get a rough estimate of the quantity of carbon on your land, as well as predict the amount of carbon that your forest may sequester into the future. These tools include: • Forest Vegetation Simulator • U.S. Forest Carbon Calculation Tool (CCT) • Carbon OnLine Estimator (COLE) • Standard lookup tables of forest ecosystem and harvested wood carbon. When you work with an aggregator to quantify and sell the carbon credits on your land, they will typically use a lookup table or model based upon one of these Forest Service Tools. Find more information here.