Summary: New England Forestry Foundation and partners have kicked off a $30-million initiative to help forest landowners implement climate-smart forest practices and build markets for climate-smart forest products. The program is funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities award.
Funding Focus: * Climate-smart forestry incentives for practices that store more carbon in working forests for a group of forest landowners across all six New England states, including on large commercial forests, smaller family woodlots and Tribal Nations woodlands
* Market-building for climate-smart forest products, with a focus on mass timber construction
* Monitoring, verification, and reporting to document and ensure additive carbon benefit
