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Responsible Forest
Management
© 1996 FSC
SW-FM/CoC-238
Keeping Working Landscapes
Intact through Certified Forestry
and Ecosystem Payments
Dylan Jenkins, CF
Director of Forest Conservation
The Nature Conservancy in PA
Roger Williams
VP, Portfolio Development
Blue Source LLC
Working Forest Landscapes
Priority Landscapes
Ownership – Central Appalachains
Market Segments
EASE
LAND
TRUSTS
FAMILY
FORESTS
MUNICIPALITIES
& AUTHORITIES
SOCIAL
CLUBS
FOREST
PRODUCTS
FIRMS
TIMOS
RISK
Where are private forests heading?
here?
or here?
FIA
Condition (1989-2005)
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Stocking:
Grade Quality:
Low Use:
Site Quality:
Public > Private
Public > Private
Public < Private
Private > Public
= Degraded Private Forest Lands via Poor Management
NWOS
Private Landowner Trends and Challenges
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Aging landowners with wave of intergenerational transfer
Lack of forest and estate planning
Disinterested heirs
Ecological + amenity values over income, but…
Harvest without plan or professional assistance
Poor incentives to protect and manage forests sustainably
= Forest parcelization and forest use/cover fragmentation
Tale of Two Forests…
TYPICAL
TRAJECTORY
• No plan
• No certification
• Declining timber quality
• No ecosystem service
sales
• Parcelization and
fragmentation
• Degraded forest
• Low quality timber
• Low quality habitat
• Low carbon storage
X
PRESENT
High quality plan
• FSC certification and
sales
• Ecologically-based
forest management
• Healthy forest
• High quality timber
• Ecosystem service
sales
• High quality habitat
• Protected investment
• High carbon storage
Fundamentals
Maintain working forest landscapes for the production of high
quality ecologic and economic values.
LONG-TERM
FOREST
PROTECTION
CERTIFIED
FOREST
MANAGEMENT
ECOSYSTEM
VALUE
MONETIZATION
• Working forest easements
• Working forest agreements
Institutional
and contractual
framework
• Inventory
• Assessment and plan
• FSC certification
• IFM + AC carbon offsets
• Nutrient trading
• Habitat mitigation
Credible
and feasible
value proposition
Business Model
Certified
Forest
Management
consulting
foresters
FOREST
OWNER
50%+
state and
federal
100%
Inventory
+
FSC Plan and
Certification
+
Land Protection
• FSC wood
markets
Carbon
Development
and Sales
• new and secured
clientele for CFs
• reduced costs to
access C markets
• protect public
investments
• VCS and/or CAR
• satisfy C market
prerequisites
• inventory,
additionality,
permanence
FSC SOLID WOOD
& BIOMASS
REVENUE
• project
development
• aggregation
• monitoring
• carbon marketing
and sales
FSC CERTIFIED
HQ CARBON REVENUE
Landowner Benefits
• No up-front, out-of-pocket costs
• Full inventory
• FSC plan and certification
• 100% FSC-certified wood product revenues
• 50%+ forest carbon revenues
• Income tax deduction for easement donation
• Plan implementation
PROPOSITION:
Ecologic
Economic
Social
Reduce or eliminate
transaction costs
Shared
risk-reward model
Long term
relationship
• Ecological health => product diversity => economic stability
Public Benefits
• Focus and protect public/private investments
• Active and engaged landowners
• Repair degraded forests; maintain desired conditions
• Keep working landscapes working and in private ownership