Total Carbon Stock

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The total carbon stock represents the mass of carbon stored in aboveground vegetation biomass and soil organic carbon in the top 30 cm of soil. We estimated a total of around 50 million metric tons of carbon (MT C) stored in the county's soils and aboveground biomass. Around 50% of this exists in shrubland, and another 38% is stored in forest and grassland.
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Data layer prepared by Bren Carbon Counters (Alicia Fennell, Gavriella Keyles, Madeline Oliver, Minerva Ringland, and Michael Wells).
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2016
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LANDFIRE, Existing Vegetation Type (2016), U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior.

LANDFIRE, Existing Vegetation Height (2016), U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior.

LANDFIRE, Existing Vegetation Cover (2016), U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of the Interior.

Soil Survey Staff, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Santa Barbara County, California.

California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Pesticide Use Report Data (2016), State of California and County of Santa Barbara

Battles JJ, Gonzalez P, Collins BM, Robards T, Saah DS. Aboveground live carbon stock changes of California wildland ecosystems, 2001–2010. For Ecol Manag. 2015 Jul;348:68–77.

California Department of Conservation, The Nature Conservancy, Tukman Geospatial, Climate Action Reserve, Merced County. Resilient Merced [Internet]. 2018. Available from: https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/terracount/downloads/ResilientCountiesGuide.pdf
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30x30 meters
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Bren School of Environmental Science & Management; contact: gp-carboncounters@bren.ucsb.edu
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Carbon Counters
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We are a group of five master's graduates at the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara. Our master's group project was evaluating the climate mitigation potential of natural & working lands in Santa Barbara County, conducted in partnership with the County's Sustainability Division.