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Dear Chairman Nichols:

While the ARB is considering alternatives to the cap-and-trade
program, please also correct the major flaws in your agency's
forestry protocol.

As it stands now with the current cap-and-trade forestry protocol,
California will be rewarding timber companies for despoiling the
land and emitting large volumes of CO2.

The protocol allows forest clearcuts (a.k.a. even-aged management)
that can dramatically impair water quality and quantity in affected
watersheds.  The clearcuts you permit to qualify as "offsets"
potentially impact the health and well-being of millions of
Californians, as well as future generations.

Please correct the forestry protocol to allow "offset" projects to
include only uneven-age forests — which not only sequester CO2 but
preserve wildlife habitat and other values.

NO clearcuts should ever be allowed in our forests, as these are
the most environmentally destructive actions possible.

Sincerely,