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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.

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.

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.

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

Purchased 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.

Client Type: Land Trust/NGO
Acres: 19,118
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 400,534

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.