We write today to offer our perspectives on three climate policy issues of particular importance to U.S. forests: carbon offset markets, supplemental incentives for domestic reductions outside of offset markets, and forest adaptation. America's forests and forest products sequester and store a remarkable 10% of our country's annual carbon emissions-capacity the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates we could double to 20% with appropriate incentives for carbon-specific management and conservation. We urge you to ensure that climate legislation creates these carbon incentives and structures them appropriately to achieve our climate goals and to help our economy.

NASF respectfully submits the following comments in response to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) proposed National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Area Sources (Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2006-0790). NASF seeks to discuss, develop, sponsor and promote programs and activities which will advance the practice of sustainable forestry, the conservation and protection of forest lands and associated resources and the establishment and management of the Nation's forests. We offer the following suggestions to the proposed rule in order to better utilize forest derived biomass as a source of renewable energy.

The undersigned forest, agriculture, and conservation organizations, representing over 2.2 million landowners, conservationists, and natural resource professionals, are writing to urge you to include the Carbon Conservation Program and the necessary funding for this program in any climate and energy legislation moving through the Senate.

We the undersigned forestry and conservation organizations are writing to thank you for your work on the Kerry-Lieberman climate and energy legislation, and look forward to continued collaboration with you to improve the legislation with respect to the U.S. forest sector. The U.S. forest sector has immense potential to drive cost-effective carbon mitigation and adaptation, which will in turn create new economic opportunities for forest products companies, foresters, private landowners, and others across rural America.

We the undersigned forestry and conservation organizations are writing to encourage
you, as you work on the Kerry-Lieberman climate and energy legislation, to ensure a
strong role for the U.S. forest sector. The U.S. forest sector has immense potential to
drive cost-effective carbon mitigation and adaptation, which will in turn create new
economic opportunities for forest products companies, foresters, private landowners, and
others across rural America.