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Carbon Balance and Management BioMed Central Research Open Access Accounting for risk in valuing forest carbon offsets Matthew D Hurteau*, Bruce A Hungate and George W Koch Address: Department of Biological Sciences and Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research, PO Box 6077, Flagstaff, AZ 860 11, USA Email: Matthew D Hurteau* - Matthew.Hurteau@; Bruce A Hungate - Bruce.Hungate@; George W Koch - George.Koch@ * Corresponding author Published: 16 January 2009 Received: 19 November 2008 Accepted: 16 January 2009 Carbon Balance and Management 2009, 4:1 doi:10.1186/1750-0680-4-1 This article is available from: /content/4/1/1 © 2009 Hurteau et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Forests can sequester carbon dioxide, thereby reducing atmospheric concentrations and slowing global warming. In the U.S., forest carbon stocks have increased as a result of regrowth following land abandonment and in-growth due to fire suppression, and they currently sequester approximately 10% of annual US emissions. This ecosystem service is recognized in greenhouse gas protocols and cap-and-trade mechanisms, yet forest carbon is valued equally regardless of forest type, an approach that fails to account for risk of carbon loss from disturbance. Res