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A Small Forest Owner's Engagement with a Carbon Sequestration Effort in Northeastern U.S.
Pond, Frederick
Pond, Frederick
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/
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In 2023, a small forest landowner in central Vermont enrolled 140 acres in the Family Forest Carbon Program[FFCP], engaging his local forestland in combating global warming. FFCP is a collaboration of The Nature Conservancy and American Forest Foundation, developed to offer small landowners the opportunity to engage their asset in carbon sequestration locally. This poster presents the experience of a small forest owner's process in entering a twenty year contract to manage a small woodlot under the direction of FFCP while enrolled with the state UVA program, also known as Current Use. Challenges to the process, advantages/downsides, future perspectives are explored in this poster, from a citizen landowner experience. This parcel is representative of hill forests that hosted early European settlers, later abandoned farm use, and later harvested for maximum ROI prior to enrollment for long-term forestry improvement guided by consulting foresters in coordination with Vermont's Current Use Program.
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2023-12-14