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FWS RESPONSEFWS Carbon Footprint Baseline Report National Geographic Green Guide Carbon Sequestration Fact Sheet USFWS Sustainability Bulletin #1 USFWS Sustainability Bulletin #2
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Mitigation - Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
FWS Southwest Regional Director Benjamin Tuggle (right) and David Frank, Director of Corporate Affairs for Dell Inc. plant one of nearly 50,000 trees at Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: USFWS
Mitigation is defined by the IPCC as human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases. Mitigation involves reducing our “carbon footprint” by using less energy, consuming fewer materials, and appropriately altering our land management practices. Mitigation is also achieved through biological carbon sequestration, the process in which CO2 from the atmosphere is taken up by plants through photosynthesis and stored as carbon in tree trunks, branches and roots. Sequestering carbon in vegetation such as bottomland hardwood forests or native prairie grasses can often restore or improve habitat and directly benefit fish and wildlife. Service planned actions include:
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