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Open Journal of Forestry 2012. Vol.2, No.1, 1-8 Published Online January 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojf) /10.4236/ojf.2012.21001 Carbon Stock Changes in Soil and Aboveground Biomass from House Lot Development in King County, Washington, USA 1 2 3 Stephen Porder , Deborah Lipson , Robert Harrison 1Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, USA 2Center for Environmental Studies, Brown University, Providence, USA 3College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Email: stephen_porder@ Received November 28th th th , 2011; revised December 28 , 2011; accepted January 6 , 2012 Fossil fuel burning and deforestation have driven dramatic increases in atmospheric CO since the indus- 2 trial revolution. However, forests in the northern temperate region sequester a substantial (~0.6 Pg·yr–1) amount of carbon (C), largely through the regrowth of secondary forests that were originally cleared for timber over one hundred years ago. In the United States, however, some regions are approaching a maxi- mum regrowth as forests are cleared again, this time for suburban and exurban developm