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TNC Ataya
4.1.2016

TNC Ataya

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.

Alma Land Company

Alma Land Company

Client Type: Corporate
Acres: 24,497
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 645,228

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.

Molpus Woodlands Group Adirondacks

Molpus Woodlands Group Adirondacks

Client Type: TIMO/REIT
Acres: 100,094
Status: Registered
Offsets issued: 1,169,245

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.

TFG Chateaugay Woodlands

TFG Chateaugay Woodlands

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 forested acres in eight primary tracts, all but 1,000 acres is encumbered by a conservation easement held by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 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.

Massachusetts Audubon Society

Massachusetts Audubon Society

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.