FROM THE GROUND UP
Investing in Appalachian Forests, Jobs, and Community through Forest Management
Through changes in management practices, we help forest landowners earn income while keeping their lands thriving and protected for generations to come.
Program Description
Dynamic Baseline:
The program is developed under the most recent high-integrity forest carbon methodology, which incorporates a dynamic baseline and accurately accounts for project additionality.
The program is developed under the most recent high-integrity forest carbon methodology, which incorporates a dynamic baseline and accurately accounts for project additionality.
Public Harvest Restriction:
Enrolled landowners commit to reduce harvest capacity for 40 years, and these restrictions are applied to the public property documents to ensure long-term performance in the event the property changes hands.
Enrolled landowners commit to reduce harvest capacity for 40 years, and these restrictions are applied to the public property documents to ensure long-term performance in the event the property changes hands.
Regionally Focused:
Aligning similar land profile types in the Appalachian region assures the project modeling is cohesive and that our program elements are comprehensive.
Aligning similar land profile types in the Appalachian region assures the project modeling is cohesive and that our program elements are comprehensive.
Integrity
Enrollment in our program represents an immediate change from previous practice and a legally binding and public-facing commitment to increase carbon stocks for four decades.
Carbon projects provide a legal certainty, that wasn't there before, that the land will increase its carbon stocks over time. Additionality is one of the key terms tied to high integrity carbon projects. It means there is a high level of confidence that a project action exceeds those that would have occurred in the absence of the carbon market incentives.
The Forest Management program at ACE is:
01 / ADDITIONAL AND REAL
We follow the most stringent and up to date methods for generating our offsets.
02 / LANDOWNER FOCUSED
We take a “listen first and talk later approach”, building a growth-oriented forest management plan together that works for the landowners long term goals.
03 / INVESTED IN THE COMMUNITY
We host workforce development training to build job seeker skills and support the local forestry industry in Central Appalachia.
