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What is Proforestation?

Presentation by Dr. William Moomaw

Emeritus Professor of International Environmental Policy, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, Tufts University

Tonight, February 24, 7pm EST

Dr. William Moomaw is part of a team working to change the narrative about forests and their capacity to sequester and store carbon, produce high quality water, provide diverse habitats that serve a full range of species from mushrooms to spring salamanders, and retain drought and flood resilience in a rapidly changing climate.

Proforestation is a newly described forestry method in which forests are allowed to grow uninterrupted by timber management—in other words, to rewild. We had the privilege of hearing Dr. Moomaw explain proforestation in a recent webinar and highly recommend tuning into his presentation tonight, hosted by Standing Trees Vermont.

William Moomaw is Emeritus Professor of international environmental policy and founding director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy at the Fletcher School of Tufts University. He currently serves as co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts, which he co-founded. He received his B.A. degree in chemistry from Williams College and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT. He had a 26-year career in chemistry and environmental studies at Williams College, where he directed the Center for Environmental Studies.

He has been a lead author of five Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports. The IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize for its climate work in 2007. He is currently working on natural solutions to climate change with a focus on increasing carbon dioxide removal and sequestration by forests, wetlands and soils to compliment emission reductions from land use changes and replacing fossil fuels with zero carbon renewable energy.