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Connecting Forestry & Carbon Finance

2.8
Million Acres

40
Forest Projects

62.3
Million Offsets

700
Million USD

Finite Carbon is North America’s leading developer and supplier of forest carbon offsets.

We value forest landowners as full project partners and deliver the industry’s highest quality forest offset project financing and development services.

We take on all project issuance risk and expense and manage all development phases in-house. Only when a project is successfully registered do we receive a small share of project returns.

We support and train our clients to ensure their carbon project fully integrates with their forest ownership goals and timber operations.

Projects

Our work takes us to every corner of the continent, connecting us with a remarkably diverse group of landowners. In November 2013, Finite Carbon developed and registered the Downeast Lakes Farm Cove Community Forest, California’s very first compliance offset project. Since then, we’ve generated over one-third of all compliance offset supply and delivered more than a half-billion dollars to our landowners. Finite’s project portfolio now includes nearly three million acres of working forestland representing every region and major forest type from the Appalachians to coastal Alaska. Explore our projects!

Appalachian Mountain Club Silver Lake
Maine
Client Type: Land Trust/NGO
Acres: 3,632
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 172,304

A key forest parcel among the headwaters of Maine’s Pleasant River, Silver Lake was protected through the combined resources of the Forest Society of Maine, Open Space Institute, and Appalachian Mountain Club. Part of the effort to conserve Maine’s storied 100-Mile Wilderness, Finite was honored to assist with the acquisition of Silver Lake by leveraging conventional sources of conservation finance with carbon offset revenue.

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Molpus Woodlands Group Meriwether
Minnesota
Client Type: TIMO/REIT
Acres: 171,966
Status: In development

Located in the coldest region of the lower 48, Meriwether has supplied fiber to the integrated pulp and paper mill in International Falls for over a century. Now managed under both Forest Stewardship Council and Sustainable Forestry Initiative certification, the property generates a sustainable flow of wood fiber for the Boise Paper mill and high-quality forest habitat for moose, bear, deer, wolves, and grouse.

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Ahtna, Inc.
Alaska
Client Type: Tribe/Native Corporation
Acres: 506,729
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 14,861,093

To date, Ahtna is the largest project developed for the US compliance offset market. The project is an important socio-economic driver for the community including training and hiring Ahtna shareholder-owners for project management. The program has the potential to grow a new generation of careers in natural resources; jobs that will allow Ahtna shareholder-owners to remain in the region caring for Ahtna land and resources.

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Sealaska 1
Alaska
Client Type: Tribe/Native Corporation
Acres: 165,077
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 11,410,748

The southeast Alaskan coast is the traditional homeland of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people. Sealaska is dominated by large contiguous blocks of mature, healthy forests supporting native flora and fauna. Committed to the protection of Alaskan waters, the project includes sensitive watersheds that are important sources of drinking water for Alaskan communities in Hydaburg and Hoonah and critical habitat for salmon.

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Lakes Region Conservation Trust
New Hampshire
Client Type: Land Trust/NGO
Acres: 9,249
Status: In development

One of the nation’s first multi-owner compliance forest carbon projects. Using a working forest conservation easement and carbon operating agreement, LRCT and a private family demonstrated how joining forces can enable smaller forest owners to access carbon markets. The project’s carbon operating agreement was generously underwritten by a Doris Duke Climate Change Initiative funded grant through the Land Trust Alliance.

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Berry Summit
California
Client Type: Corporate
Acres: 2,113
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 239,205

In 2014, Finite purchased the Berry Summit property from Green Diamond Resources in Northern California’s iconic Humboldt County. After 18 months we registered the property’s forest carbon project, demonstrating to forest investors how carbon project revenue can be used to finance the acquisition of working forestlands.

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TNC Ataya
Kentucky/Tennessee
Client Type: Land Trust
Acres: 26,261
Status: Registered
Offsets Issued: 3,189,873

Purchased by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in 2019, Ataya is a historic conservation success for TNC’s Central Appalachian Program. Managed as a working forest, the 100,000-acre property links the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area in Tennessee and the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park in Kentucky. Ataya is part of one of the nation’s most important corridors for animal migration as the region’s climate changes.

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Norfolk Southern Brosnan Forest
South Carolina
Client Type: Corporate
Acres: 10,209
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 354,305

Norfolk Southern is an innovator and early participant in forest carbon markets. Actively managed under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) certification program, Brosnan Forest harbors old growth longleaf pine forests and the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Norfolk Southern’s enrollment in a forest carbon project reflects the company’s values and commitment to sustainable forest management.

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TFG Yalbac Ranch
Belize
Client Type: TIMO/REIT
Acres: 129,122
Status: In development

Yalbac Ranch was once part of the Belize Estate Company and its forests were logged for a few select species including mahogany, cedar, and Santa Maria. In 1994, the Yalbac Ranch and Cattle Corporation purchased the property and partnered with The Forestland Group in 2008. The sub-tropical property’s 153 merchantable forest species are now managed to the Forest Stewardship Council standard.

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Huna Totem
Alaska
Client Type: Tribe/Native Corporation
Acres: 7,106
Status: In Development

Huna Totem’s temperate rainforests are among the most productive in the world. After past harvesting, Huna Totem now focuses on forest protection to provide non-timber values including watershed health, wildlife habitat, subsistence hunting, fishing, and gathering opportunities for native Alaskan communities. In addition, their carbon offset project will create forest-related job and training opportunities for shareholders.

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Sieben Live Stock Company
Montana
Client Type: Corporate
Acres: 11,778
Status: In development

Established in 1868, four generations of the Sieben and Hibbard families have stewarded their 40,000+ acre ranch in the Adel Mountain headwaters of the Missouri River. As many western ranches succumb to fragmentation and development, the Sieben’s forest offset project diversifies their company’s cattle, hunting, and timber revenue and helps the family to protect and manage the property as a working ranch and forest.

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Molpus Woodlands Group Adirondacks
New York
Client Type: TIMO/REIT
Acres: 100,094
Status: In development

With this purchase in 2014, Molpus became the largest private landowner in New York’s iconic Adirondack Park. Protected from development by NYDEC easements granting public recreation access, the property is managed under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and Forest Stewardship Council certification programs. The Grasse River runs through the property and is a popular destination for anglers and canoers.

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Downeast West Grand Lake
Maine
Client Type: Land Trust/NGO
Acres: 19,552
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 599,217

Developed in partnership with the Lyme Timber Company and now owned and managed by the Downeast Lakes Land Trust (DLLT), West Grand Lake is a key component of the larger Grand Lake Stream ecosystem in Downeast Maine. Working in partnership with DLLT, Lyme Timber used carbon finance to diversify return on investment and ensure that West Grand Lake forever remains a certified working forest.

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Tennessee River Gorge Trust
Tennessee
Client Type: Land Trust/NGO
Acres: 5,675
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 369,828

TRGT executive director Rick Huffines and staff know they’re fortunate to work and play among the biodiversity rich Southern Cumberlands and Tennessee River Gorge. Over three decades, TRGT has successfully protected much of the remaining forest surrounding the Gorge. TRGTs forest offset project helps to ensure that this special landscape will be conserved and managed for migratory bird habitat.

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TNC Highlands
Virginia
Client Type: TIMO/REIT
Acres: 103,849
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 2,952,619

Purchase by The Nature Conservancy in 2019, the Highlands property is managed as commercial timberland under the Forest Stewardship Council certification program. While a portion of the property is leased for hunting, approximately 30,000 acres are open to public hunting access through Virginia’s Public Access Lands for Sportsmen (PALS) Program – the first of its kind in Virginia.

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Sealaska 2
Alaska
Client Type: Tribe/Native Corporation
Acres: 10,700
Status: In development

Sealaska’s second carbon project supports large, intact blocks of native forests. Project proceeds will be invested back to Sealaska shareholders, businesses, and communities. For multiple generations, the project area will be untouched by commercial harvesting. Shareholders will retain full access to the area for cultural needs such as logs for totem poles, other cultural projects, and non-timber development opportunities.

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TFG Chateaugay Woodlands
New York
Client Type: TIMO/REIT
Acres: 79,199
Status: In development

Chateaugay Woodlands lies in the northern fringe of New York’s Adirondack Mountains. Consisting of 85,450 acres in eight primary tracts, all but 1,000 acres is encumbered by a conservation easement held by the NYDEC The property is managed for its timber resource, while the focus of the DEC’s easement is toward the protection of scenic and natural resources, public access, and recreation.

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Alma Land Company
Kentucky
Client Type: Corporate
Acres: 24,497
Status: In development

As the global economy decarbonizes, Appalachian land holders like Alma seek to generate returns from carbon sequestration through forest conservation versus carbon emission via coal-fired energy generation. Located in eastern Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia, forests within the Alma project area are comprised of red maple, red oak, yellow poplar, eastern white pine, and eastern hemlock.

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Colville Tribes
Washington
Client Type: Tribe/Native Corporation
Acres: 487,417
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 14,357,787

The second largest offset project in US compliance program history, Colville’s carbon project dovetails with the Tribe’s sophisticated forest operations and diversifies their land management revenue. While a wildfire in 2015 impacted a significant portion of the Colville forest, carbon revenue from the unburned forest is compensating for lost timber revenue and underwriting replanting for forest regeneration and recovery.

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Molpus Woodlands Group Champion
New York
Client Type: TIMO/REIT
Acres: 102,900
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 1,244,079

Purchased from The Forestland Group in 2014, acquisition of the Champion property made Molpus Woodlands Group the largest private landowner in New York’s iconic Adirondack Park. The forest was previously owned by Champion International. As a result of a deal with Champion in 1998, New York State owns conservation easements on the property that allow forestry but prohibit subdivision and development.

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Rowland Land Company
West Virginia
Client Type: Corporate
Acres: 35,466
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 1,940,297

Comprised predominantly of contiguous natural forests in southcentral West Virginia, Rowland forestlands have historically been managed for timber, coal, and natural gas. As coal markets ebb, Rowland increasingly focuses on revenue from its sustainably managed forests. Rowland forests are dominated by natural eastern hardwood and conifer species including red and white oak, maple, hickory, yellow poplar, and pine.

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NEFF Hersey Mountain Wilderness
New Hampshire
Client Type: Land Trust/NGO
Acres: 2,141
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 69,051

Owned by one of New England’s most venerable forest conservation organizations, Hersey Mountain was an early project for Finite. NEFF pursued their carbon project to learn firsthand how to integrate carbon offsets into forest management. NEFF’s project demonstrates how New England landowners can capitalize on carbon revenue as a forest management and conservation strategy.

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Tyonek Native Corporation
Alaska
Client Type: Tribe/Native Corporation
Acres: 51,244
Status: In development

Finite’s offset development work often takes us to remote areas accessible only by air and sea. Operating in untamed country, Alaskan projects like Tyonek present unique challenges and risks for offset project development. Finite staff have deep project experience in coastal Alaska and in addition to our offset expertise we are trained in wilderness survival, transportation safety, and wildlife defense.

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Downeast Farm Cove Community Forest
Maine
Client Type: Land Trust/NGO
Acres: 19,118
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 284,043

The threat of subdivision, development, and loss of public access to the Farm Cove Community Forest lands motivated the formation the Downeast Lakes Land Trust (DLLT) in 2001. DLLT partnered with Finite in 2010 to develop the Farm Cove forest offset project which became California’s very first completed and registered compliance offset project in December 2013.

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Lyme Timber Company Little Brimstone
Tennessee
Client Type: TIMOS/REIT
Acres: 4,861
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 262,257

Once part of the vast forestland holdings of International Paper, Little Brimstone was purchased and protected by Lyme Timber Company as the core ecological preserve of a larger working forest landscape. A forested gem among Tennessee’s rugged North Cumberland Plateau, Little Brimstone and the surrounding Big Brimstone properties are managed under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification program.

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Spokane Tribe
Washington
Client Type: Tribe/Native Corporation
Acres: 95,390
Status: In development

Historical land uses within the Spokane Tribe project area include timber production, outdoor recreation, and subsistence hunting, fishing, and gathering. The Spokane project area is currently managed as multiple use forestland and projected land use within the project area will support and promote large, intact blocks of native forests in eastern Washington state.

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Cooks Branch Conservancy
Texas
Client Type: Land Trust/NGO
Acres: 5,390
Status: In development

An ecological oasis in a rapidly urbanizing landscape, Cooks Branch is no fixer upper! Stewarded by the Mitchell Family since the 1960’s, Cooks Branch harbors old growth loblolly pine stands and one of the highest densities of endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers in Texas. The Mitchell’s enrollment in a forest carbon project helps to ensure the protection of this increasingly rare Texas forest habitat.

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PotlatchDeltic Moro Big Pine
Arkansas
Client Type: TIMO/REIT
Acres: 15,810
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 350,119

One of several Finite Carbon projects harboring significant populations of the federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW). PotlatchDeltic actively manages their Moro Big Pine Wildlife Management Area with harvesting and prescribed fire to promote the growth of healthy forest conditions and habitat for a variety of rare plants and animals including RCW.

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TFG Connecticut Lakes
New Hampshire
Client Type: TIMO/REIT
Acres: 141,062
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 1,865,335

Connecticut Lakes encompasses the northern tip of New Hampshire and is the state’s largest unbroken tract of privately-owned forestland. Providing forest products and jobs to the economy of New England for over a century, the entire ownership is encumbered by a working forest easement held by the state of New Hampshire granting forest management, public access, and conservation of natural resources.

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ATP Upper Hudson Woodlands
New York
Client Type: Corporate
Acres: 90,060
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 1,411,136

Owned by Denmark’s public pension fund ATP, Upper Hudson Woodlands (UHW) is certified under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) programs. Located in New York’s iconic Adirondack Park, UHW is managed for timber and public recreation. Enrollment of the property in a forest carbon project diversified investment revenue and demonstrated ATP’s sustainability commitment to its pensioners.

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Massachusetts Audubon Society
Massachusetts
Client Type: Land Trust/NGO
Acres: 7,183
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 811,941

One of New England’s oldest conservation organizations, the Massachusetts Audubon Society (MAS) worked with Finite to develop a complex offset project across dozens of tracts in Western Massachusetts. In addition to supporting environmental education, forest carbon revenue enables MAS to continue a legacy of conservative forestry and focus their operations on restoring high quality New England forest habitat.

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Passamaquoddy Tribe
Maine
Client Type: Tribe/Native Corporation
Acres: 98,492
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 4,076,024

Finite is honored to work with the Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine to connect their 98,000 acres of tribal trust lands to the forest carbon market. Having generated over $30 million for the Tribe, Passamaquoddy’s project revenue is being used for several economic development projects including expansion of their blueberry and maple syrup companies, family housing, and upgrades to forestry equipment and infrastructure.

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UCC Shannondale Tree Farm
Missouri
Client Type: Land Trust/NGO
Acres: 3,982
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 159,713

A story of stewardship and faith dating back to the 1920’s, Shannondale is the oldest continuously certified American Tree Farm in Missouri. Finite is honored to work alongside the United Church of Christ’s Mid-Missouri Conference to continue the Shannondale legacy by helping the church reaffirm and tangibly demonstrate their commitment to creation care and environmental justice.

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Clients

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Team

With a reputation for integrity, professionalism, and results, Finite Carbon’s team combines decades of forestland management and carbon offset development expertise. All forestry staff maintain professional credentials under the Society of American Foresters Certified Forester program and membership in the Association of Consulting Foresters.

Sean Carney
President
B.S. Business and Environmental Studies, University of Southern California

Sean manages Finite’s portfolio and OTC transactions in addition to overseeing Finite’s overall operations. He was a broker at CantorCO2e where he worked with clients to facilitate structured carbon offset transactions from forestry, livestock management, landfill gas, and renewable energy projects. Prior to CantorCO2e, Sean was one of the first employees of Carbonfund.org, where he worked with Dell, Volkswagen, and Orbitz to develop and manage their carbon neutral programs. Sean is one of the offset industry’s most seasoned transaction specialists.
Carrie Gombos
Vice President of Carbon Compliance
B.S. Biology and Society, Cornell University
J.D. Harvard Law School

Based in Washington D.C., Carrie oversees Finite’s legal compliance related to the production, verification, reporting, and delivery of carbon offsets. Prior to Finite, Carrie directed carbon compliance at The Conservation Fund where she specialized in voluntary and compliance offset regulatory requirements and managed the Fund’s voluntary forest carbon offset program, Go Zero, including the successful verification and validation of more voluntary forest carbon projects than any group in the nation.
Dylan Jenkins, ACF CF
Vice President of Portfolio Development
B.S. Forest Resource Management, Clemson
M.S. Forest Management and Economics, Virginia Tech

Dylan leads Finite’s project origination and client relations. He has over twenty years of experience working with private forest landowners toward the protection and sustainable management of working forestlands. Dylan joined Finite from The Nature Conservancy where he developed market-based strategies integrating land protection, certified forest management, and forest carbon markets. He was SAF’s 2006 National Young Forester of the Year, served on the SAF National Committee on Forest Policy, and chaired SAF’s Certification Review Board.
Tim McAbee, CF
Senior Vice President of Project Development
A.A.S. SUNY ESF Ranger School
B.S. Forest Resource Management, SUNY ESF

Tim leads Finite’s in-house project development team and oversees all project inventory, modeling, documentation, and verification activity. He has extensive experience in carbon markets, modelling, and natural resource systems planning. Under Tim’s leadership, Finite’s team has verified and registered more forest offset projects and offset project supply than any company in the industry. His experience as a consulting and procurement forester gives Finite clients added value in evaluating and implementing carbon projects on working timberlands.
Matt Smith, ACF CF
Vice President of Forest Operations
B.S. Forest Resource Management, SUNY ESF

Matt oversees the implementation of Finite’s forest carbon inventory and project verification work and has led more successful forest offset project verifications than anyone in the industry. For two decades Matt was a forest operations specialist and management director for Forecon’s TIMO clients. Matt has extensive carbon project experience under the ARB, CAR, VCS, ACR and CCX programs. Matt is a forest landowner in western New York and has been published in the ForestrySource, Forest Landowner, the ACF Consultant, and the Journal of Forestry.
Eric Downing, CCF
Vice President of Project Development
B.A. Environmental Science, Vassar College
M.F. and M.E.M. Duke Nicholas School of the Environment

Based in Los Angeles, Eric is part of the Finite Carbon team responsible for project feasibility analysis, modeling, and development. With extensive experience using FVS and ARC-GIS, Eric worked in operations and management on Duke’s FSC-certified School Forest and assisted in the execution of timber sales and design and implementation of Duke’s continuous forest inventory system. Eric was a Soil Research Technician with the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Brandon Vickery, CF
Director of Project Development
B.S. Natural Resources, University of Maryland
M.S. Forestry, SUNY ESF

Brandon has over ten years of forest modelling and forest conservation experience with advanced analytics using Remsoft, FVS, Access, and ArcMap. Before joining Finite, Brandon worked with Mason, Bruce and Girard providing analytical support for forest management planning projects, harvest scheduling, timberland valuation, inventory, and appraisal analysis. While at MBG, Brandon contributed to the national Indian Forest Management Assessment Team (IFMAT-III) report. Brandon was previously a land protection specialist with the Franklin Land Trust (MA).
Brian Sharer, CF
Forest Analytics Manager
B.A. Biology, Colgate
M.S. Forest Economics, Oregon State
M.B.A. University of Portland

Brian has over 20 years of experience in forest modeling, inventory, and investment analysis. He was portfolio manager for $500 million of U.S. timberlands assets at GreenWood Resources where he led inventory and modeling for existing investments and acquisition targets. He has extensive analytical experience with REITs and TIMOs, industrial, government, and non-profit landowners leading planning efforts, asset valuations, systems analysis, and forestry software development. Brian serves on the Forest Biometrics Research Institute Board of Directors.
Stephen Purvis, CCF
Associate Director of Project Development
B.S. Forestry, University of Georgia
M.S. Forestry, University of Georgia

Stephen is part of Finite’s project development team based in our Tallahassee office. Before joining Finite, Stephen worked with Weyerhaeuser conducting biomass and silvicultural research, timber market analysis, and market feasibility. In Weyerhaeuser’s southeast forest operations group, he managed the regional harvesting program including harvest scheduling and made significant contributions in harvest scheduling methodology. He is a certified professional logging manager with advanced analytic experience using Remsoft, SAS, and ArcMap.
Steve Dettman, CF
Director of Project Development
B.A. Mathematics and Music, Univ. of Virginia
M.A. Near East Languages, Univ. of Washington
M.F. Yale School of Forestry

Steve has spent the past 15 years managing forestry projects in tropical and temperate forests in over 10 countries including leading forest inventories in Central America. He has worked with TIMOs, NGOs, and public agencies to evaluate lands for their ecosystem service potential. Steve has modeled forest growth and yield using FVS, FPS, and Remsoft, guided new forest carbon protocols through the VCS approval process, is a recognized VCS AFOLU expert and an accredited verifier under the US Forest protocol with the California Air Resources Board.
Adam Trenholm, CCF
GIS Manager
B.S. Forestry, University of Massachusetts

Adam leads Finite’s geospatial analysis work. Before Finite, Adam worked throughout New England as a forest stewardship technician for the New England Forestry Foundation (a Finite client), in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming as a forester for Spearfish Forest Products, and as a staff forester for LandVest Timberlands in New Hampshire and Vermont. While working on his undergraduate degree, Adam spent two summers working for the USDA Forest Service as a Forestry Technician in Big Piney, Wyoming and Wrangell, Alaska.
Trevor Cutsinger
Director of Acquisitions
B.A. Religion and the Environment, Furman
M.E.M. Nicholas School, Duke University

Based in Aiken, SC, Trevor oversees Finite’s forest acquisitions. Prior to joining Finite, Trevor worked for The Conservation Fund’s Working Forest Fund program. During his tenure over 600,000 acres were secured across 16 states. He has also worked for the U.S. Army on easement and fee acquisition projects around the country. He has extensive experience in project due diligence, cash flow modeling, forestry operations, forest certification, and conservation easements.