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From Roger Sathre:

The displacement factors in Sathre & O'Connor (2010) are in units of tC emissions per tC in wood products (not per t of wood products). So your displacement results may need to be cut in half (50% C content of dry wood by weight). You are not the first to misinterpret the 2010 DF numbers. At the time I thought it was "elegant" to use the same unit (tC) in both numerator and denominator, so it expresses a "multiplier effect" (for each ton of C in wood, you avoid 2.1 times that much C in emissions). But it turns out the units are not very intuitive, and it would probably have been better to use tC (or tCO2) per t of dry wood (or per m3 of wood).

Rosenberg

I believe the division by 100000 should be by 1000000,,,

SLCP does include BC emissions estimates from wildfire and prescribed fire. Should reference those estimates.

Bill Stewart