Forest Carbon Works’ Conserve is an Improved Forest Management (IFM) carbon program designed to
increase net carbon stocks in privately-owned US woodlands. It enables enrolled forests to become more
resilient to the impacts of climate change, be better stocked with larger and older trees, and to maintain
high growth rates. It can often also result in higher wood production levels over time.
Forest carbon stocks are continually at risk of degradation or conversion, particularly given the frequency
of timber market fluctuations and land transactions largely motivated by timber and alternative land use
value. Forest carbon projects remove these risks, with guaranteed monitoring, reporting, and verification
for 60 years (or more, depending on the contract length our members choose)1. The long-term result is
bigger, older, and more resilient forests – many with enhanced productivity.
Conserve members’ premium annual payments are made possible by our proprietary forest inventory
and monitoring technology, as well as the market-preferred forest management certifications we include
to our members as a free service.
Our program’s industry-leading contract options let members benefit from expected future voluntary
carbon offset credit price appreciation and to choose the contract length that works best for them.
We conduct an initial on-site forest carbon analysis within the first 6 months of membership. Thereafter,
we only need to visit our members’ land a few times over the entire standard 25-year payment period.
Members simply collect their payments and continue to enjoy the land!