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      years. In a residential building, it’ll be there an average 80 years. Meanwhile, on the back end, you’re planting more trees on that same acreage, and they’re capturing more carbon and also putting it into the soil.”
A number of entities are seeing this potential in privately-owned forests—
and they’re investing.
Corporations are buying carbon
credits from forest landowners, often in transactions aided and certified by conservation organizations like The Nature Conservancy’s Working Wood- lands program.
The program, which is already helping
landowners with property assessments, management plans and certification in Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York, will launch in Georgia in 2021.
Some corporations (including some based in Atlanta) have been involving themselves more directly in tree farming
 WORKING WOODLANDS
Working Woodlands (WW) is a program by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) that aims to protect critical forests while improving private forest management, providing revenue for forest landowners and fighting climate change. To learn more, visit nature.org/workingwoodlands or contact Amy Gutierrez at amy.gutierrez@tnc.org
        Revenue from WW-facilitated carbon credit sales goes back to landowners aside from a small portion used to sustain the program.
CARBON OFFSET PROJECT
TNC develops carbon projects, which enable landowners to generate revenue while producing carbon credits.
TNC continues its conservation efforts and enrolls new landowners in the program.
 WW generates carbon credits by helping landowners sustainably manage forests.
                                                  FOREST MANAGEMENT
& CERTIFICATION
TNC provides landowners with a forest
management plan to help them practice sustainable forest management.
                                               CONSERVATION EASEMENT
TNC assists landowners in establishing permanent easements, conserving forestland in perpetuity.
                    SOURCES: BAIN & COMPANY, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY WEBSITE, WORKING WOODLANDS DIRECTOR INTERVIEWS, STATE CHAPTER INTERVIEWS
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