Improving Michigan Forests
LAND OWNERS: RECEIVE ANNUAL INCOME
FROM THE CO2 CREDITS PRODUCED BY YOUR TIMBER...
You can now receive annual royalty payments simply by implementing and utilizing the management practices set forth through our hands-free Carbon Off-Set Program.
To apply for these credits and membership in this program...
Our company measures the amount of carbon, and
sequestration rates that your forest captures. This allows us to more adequately manage a forest, and obtain a better perspective of harvest cycles, and individual tree selections.
Using scientific forestry methods, we will determine the amount of offsets your woodland provides, present it to market, and distribute royalty payments to forests owners, annually, as they mature.
This ongoing management provides consistent, accurate documentation of your forest, and its expected growth rates.
Occasionally, Timber Stand Improvement (TSI) harvests take place to insure new growth and proper timber rotation. During these improvement cycles, your timber is presented to our network of producers who seek "Certified Lumber" from the marketplace. These producers are recognized by Michigan Timber Conservation, LLC as being known for their outstanding commitment to Forest Stewardship. Lumber certification insures that your timber is exposed to the best market conditions available at the time in which a harvest takes place. This eliminates the risk of "unknown bidders" that do not practice Sustainable Forestry and proper management.
All field work is professionally executed without any out of pocket expense to our Members.
“Michigan Timber Conservation, LLC is committed to ongoing
To apply for these credits and membership in this program...
You must own a minimum of 10 acres* of Wooded Land to be considered for enrollment. Upon approval, this program will...
- Sustainably manage and improve your forest's health.
- Improve the long term carbon sequestration capabilities of your woodland.
- Pay all start up and forest inventory costs.
- Have all work 3rd party verified and sustainably certified for your protection.
- Pay you carbon sequestration royalties annually.
- Pay you additional revenue from sustainable logging operations as needed.
Your Management Objectives matter to us. If you are uncertain of your objectives, that's OK, we are here to help. All new members will be asked to fill out a simple objective worksheet that has suggestions that may not have previously discussed. This will help us assist you in meeting your goals.
If your forest has
harvestable, merchantable timber; you will still be able to use your timberland
for wood production. Our company will make sure that it stays that way, for future generations to come.
To learn more about our program
Trees can soak up carbon dioxide, one of the major greenhouse gases,
from the air. Now, California has created one of the first regulated
methods for landowners to make money by growing more trees, more
quickly, and other states are following suit. |
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For more information about carbon off-sets in other states,
please view the links below...
U.S. Forest Carbon and Climate Change: Controversies and Win-Win Policy Approaches
As
consensus grows about the serious impacts of global climate change, the
important role of forests in carbon storage is increasingly recognized. View This Website As A PDF Click On The Report Below Easy to print information from this website without pictures:
Complete CO2 program with graphics and pictures:
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Published: April 05, 2009
Kentucky forest owners can sell carbon credits for trees
ANDY MEADAssociated Press
IRVINE — Justin Maxson admits that the concept he's been explaining to Appalachian landowners is a little difficult to wrap your mind around:
"There's an odorless, colorless gas that is sucked out of the air by your trees, and somebody's going to pay you for that."
The gas is carbon dioxide, or CO2, which contributes to global warming. Industries that produce it, and want to reduce their carbon footprint, are willing to pay when healthy trees do what they do naturally, which is absorb the CO2 and store it.
Because the trees must be in forests that are well managed, a side benefit is that the region's long-abused forests could finally get some respect. That, in turn, is good news for wildlife and water quality.
No money has changed hands yet, mostly because the program is voluntary and the recession has lowered the amount of money that companies are willing to spend. But legislation is looming that could limit CO2 emissions and push up prices.
Maxson is executive director of the Berea-based Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, which is lining up people with forest land and walking them through the steps needed to sell carbon credits. In the emerging world of carbon credits trading, MACED is called an aggregator. It calls its program the Forest Opportunities Initiative.
Aggregators are especially needed in a state such as Kentucky, where nearly half the land is forested, but 89 percent of the forests are owned by private landowners. The average woods is just 26 acres. MACED's plan is to group many parcels together, and, when the price is right, sell their credits on the Chicago Climate Exchange.
So far, MACED has signed up 30 people who own altogether more than 16,000 acres of woods, nearly all of it in eastern Kentucky.
The organization figures that wooded acres already enrolled are taking up 57,300 tons of CO2 in a year. Using the Environmental Protection Agency's online Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, that equals the emissions used to generate electricity for nearly 8,000 homes for a year, or from burning 299 rail cars of coal.
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