Ecotrust in the News
The Oregonian
April 01, 2009
by Matthew Preusch
Oregon woodland owners consider selling carbon credits
MANNING — With all the worries climate change conjures — swelling carbon footprints, dissolving Antarctic ice sheets — it helps to walk through Peter Hayes' woods and hear how they could help slow the planet's warming.
As rain drips off Douglas fir branches onto his green slicker, Hayes explains how he and other forest owners can capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and maybe make money doing so.
"You're getting triple the carbon storage on our land by having these older stands," said Hayes, who owns and manages 770 acres on three tree farms, including this one in the foothills of the Coast Range.
Hayes is among many woodland owners facing pressure from development and dropping timber values and looking for ways to make money. But with cutting trees as fast as they grow no longer an adequate long-term business model, they instead are looking at the possible benefits of being good stewards of the environment.
One way to do that? Carbon offsets.
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