Information was taken from the Colorado State Forest Service's Colorado's Forests in a Changing Climate web page.
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Managing Forests in a Changing Climate

• Ensure a mixture of older and younger trees. Larger, older trees act as reservoirs that store the most carbon while young, vigorously growing trees actively absorb the most carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
• Help forests regenerate after wildfire or other catastrophic events, through plantings of seedling trees, to allow the new trees to recapture carbon as they grow.
• Manage for diverse tree species to provide more resilient forests in uncertain future environments, in both wildland and urban settings.
• Reduce tree densities in historically fire-prone and less-dense forest types, to help reduce the risk of intense crown fires burning in the forest canopy and killing entire stands (which later would decompose and release carbon into the atmosphere).
• Utilize wood obtained from timber harvesting efforts, either as lasting wood products or to heat homes and other structures on or near the project site (as an inexpensive and more carbon-friendly alternative to fossil fuels).
• Prepare for longer fire seasons and potentially more intense fire behavior when planning fuels-reduction and wildfire mitigation actions in or near communities.