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Chestnut Carbon Announces More Than 160K Acres Enrolled in Improved Forest Management (IFM) Program
Chestnut Carbon (“Chestnut”), a nature-based carbon project developer, today announced that since its inception, it has enrolled over 160,000 acres in its Improved Forest Management (IFM) membership program branded as “Forest Carbon Works.” The program is one of the largest in the U.S. providing private landowners access to income-generating carbon markets while preserving the integrity and legacy of their forest land. The program currently has members enrolled from 36 states.
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Chestnut Carbon Successfully Issues First Batch Of Improved Forest Management Credits
Chestnut Carbon, a developer of nature-based carbon removal projects, announced that it has successfully issued its first Improved Forest Management (IFM) carbon credits generated from the Forest Carbon Works membership program.
The transactions, in which more than 64,000 carbon removal credits were sold to various corporate buyers, including JPMorgan Chase, totaled $2.2 million.
US Forest Carbon Project Developer Announces $2.2M in IFM Credit Deals
A US-headquartered developer of nature-based carbon removal projects has completed the first issuance and sale of improved forest management (IFM) credits, in a series of deals valued at $2.2 million.
Banking on Oregon Forests: Despite Challenges, Carbon Markets See Big Potential in Small Landowners
Just a few years before Julie and John Christensen bought their 70-acre forest in Corbett, it had been clear-cut for logging and for animal grazing. So, they planted thousands of trees, making it a sanctuary to the bears, cougars and deer navigating a broader landscape taxed by growing logging and development.
Hoping to preserve their reforestation efforts, they signed a contract in 2023 with the company Forest Carbon Works that binds the future of their forest to a voluntary carbon crediting market.
A New Model for Forest Management
In 2018 the Keasey family decided to join Forest Carbon Works. Instead of having to clearcut sections of the property every few years, or trying to find a few loads of cedar to harvest, they now receive an annual payment to let their trees grow and store carbon. “Paying the property taxes is the absolute minimum we need to do to maintain this property,” says Nelson. “Now, we don’t have to worry about that any more. In the past, every year I had to look around and decide, what am I going to cut down? What am I going to have to sacrifice to make some income?”
How Small Forests Can Help Save the Planet
Eve Lonnquist’s family has owned a forest in the mountains of northwest Oregon since her grandmother bought the land in 1919. Her 95-year-old father still lives on the 157-acre property. And she and her wife often drive up from their home just outside Portland.
But lately, Ms. Lonnquist, 59 and recently retired, has been thinking about the future of her family’s land. Like many small-forest owners, they draw some income from logging and would like to keep doing so.
In Conservation Fight, Forests are a Weapon — and a Potential Paycheck
The woods up Blueberry Hill Road in northeast Minnesota are the Weideman family’s escape, a place to unplug, track signs of bear and wolves, hunt grouse and wander.
The land’s carbon storage value? That has not been top of mind. Until now.
Kimmeridge Energy Commits $200 Million to Carbon-Offset Startup Chestnut
Private-equity firm Kimmeridge Energy Management has pledged as much as $200 million to back Chestnut Carbon LLC, a startup dedicated to generating carbon-offset credits from forests.
As part of that process, New York-based Chestnut plans to develop new forests, including by planting trees on 500,000 acres across the U.S. The startup recently acquired Forest Carbon Works PBC, a public-benefit corporation based in Minneapolis that helps small landowners obtain carbon credits and earn income by preserving and managing woodlands in their properties.