Forest Carbon Offsets Product Funding for Conservation & Sustainable Wood Sales

The traditional timber market involves a sawmill buyers who looks for highest quality lumber in a forest and tries to optimize their harvest time by removing ALL the most valuable timber.  That's called "high-graded" timber harvesting.

When a forest owner has been high-graded, all or at least most of the valuable timber is removed during one harvest operation and this includes small trees that would have made good candidates for premium lumber.

The potential of less desirable trees is ignored. 

Balanced management is ignored.

Sustainable Forestry Management

Sustainability balanced with profitability takes into consideration the long term effects of harvesting, and methods of individual tree selections. Timber is harvested using basic, scientifically based formulas that provide balanced growth and productivity for your forest.

Baseline Timber Harvesting

Balanced management is the single most important aspect of forestry.

Private forest owners need to develop a consistent, accurate way to harvest their timber, and the roles of forest managers become more scientific to develop sustainable harvesting methods that promote long term forest sustainability.

Carbon offset programs are now available as a new revenue source that balances productive timber harvest for profitability with the ecosystem's need for the multiple benefits of healthy forests.  These benfits are far ranging...