How to estimate carbon sequestration on small forest tracts

International climate change agreements may anew carbon stored as a result of afforestation and reforestation to be used to offset CO2 emissions. Moni toring the carbon sequestered or released through forest management activit ies thus becomes important. Estimating forest carbon storage is feasible ev en for nonindustrial private forestland (NIPF) owners, and the necessary to ols are available.We developed a methodology for estimating forest carbon s torage at the management unit stale and tested the impacts of hypothetical management scenarios on carbon sequestration over time. We demonstrate the procedure on two military installations in the southeastern United States a nd discuss some practical considerations.