TY - JOUR T1 - Forest management and biochar for continued ecosystem services JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 60A LP - 64A DO - 10.2489/jswc.2022.0603A VL - 77 IS - 4 AU - Carlos Rodriguez Franco AU - Deborah S. Page-Dumroese AU - James Archuleta Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/77/4/60A.abstract N2 - New approaches to managing climate change uncertainty rely on integrating innovative forest management practices with adaptive management techniques and robust decision-support strategies. Forest management alternatives for a changing climate can enhance ecosystem health and sustainability while ensuring the flow of ecosystem services, such as water, wildlife, biodiversity, recreation, and ecosystem resilience. Ideally, these methods will help reverse the decline in ecosystem function from associated ecological disturbances, such as drought, wildfire, insects, diseases, or invasive species. Forests are important because they are a source for food, fiber, medicine, water, and biofuels for more than one billion people. In addition, forests protect soil and water quality, host more than three-quarters of terrestrial biodiversity, and help combat climate change impacts (FAO 2020).Sustainable forest management results in healthy and productive ecosystems that provide goods and services to current and future generations. Ecosystem services include (1) provisioning services such as food, water, clean air, wood, grasslands (open space), and fiber; (2) regulating services that affect climate, floods, disease, wastes, and water quality and quantity; (3) cultural services that provide recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits; and (4) supporting services such as soil formation, photosynthesis, and nutrient cycling (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005; Smyth 2014). With these ecosystem services in mind, approaches to forest management can include actions directed to the conservation and sustainability of ecosystems and their contributions to enhance human well-being and benefits.One method to increase ecosystem services is by incorporating biochar into forest … ER -