Using the forest as carbon storage - and get payed for it?

[stavebuyer]

Most I am familiar with dumped the acreage for deep discounts to its true retail. Didn't get anything close to its true value. Frist thing the new owners do after high grading the SMZs is call the surveyor and auctioneer.

[SwampDonkey]

Mill ground doesn't sell for much around here, averaging $250/acre for large tracts. I know one buyer who thought it would be a chance to sell camp lots. Never worked out. He got a nature trust outfit to buy him out for 4x what he paid. Only standing timber was along riparian edge, with a lot of that blown down. It's 100% treed, but not mature enough to harvest wood. Used to be riparian roads that followed the main creek for miles. Never maintained for years, all grew up. In a lot of places the ones keeping them old roads maintained these days are trail clubs, which get mostly government money and what ever they can spare from trail pass money. I see camp lots have sprung up along rivers in recent years where you're not allow to fish or require a crown reserve license.

[petefrom bearswamp]

Had our meeting last Saturday
We received $4,800 + for our 3,800 acres.
It seems-this program has gone away.

[Ron Scott]

A giant Oregon fire shows the limits of carbon offsets in fighting climate change.
 
This might be of interest. It's complicated!
 
To help counter their greenhouse gas pollution, Microsoft and other companies invested millions in a project to store more carbon in Southern Oregon trees. 

The 2021 Bootleg Fire upended that plan.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/a-giant-oregon-fire-shows-the-limits-of-carbon-offsets-in-fighting-climate-change/