Funding For Forest Owners

Funding For Forest Owners

Funding For Forest Owners. I'm Greg Martin with Washington Ag Today.

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service is offering financial and technical assistance to private woodland owners in northwest Oregon and western Washington. Dean Moberg, Resource Conservationist with USDA-NRCS explains their "Unlocking Carbon Markets for Non Industrial Private Forest Landowners in the Pacific Northwest" program.

MOBERG: It's available for what's called non-industrial private forest landowners which means folks who own forest but who don't own timber mills so it does not apply to large timber companies.

This funding is part of a five-year project, now in its second year.

MOBERG: An idea has been used, really around the world in different places to compensate people who can help take more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by changing the way they manage their land and the next sign up deadline for this is April 15

Moberg says an application does not commit you but shows an interest in being a part of the program.

MOBERG: The highest priority funding that we have in this is for the forest landowner to get a really good forest management plan developed that lets them know what they've got on their land in terms of resources especially the existing stands of timber and the kinds of soils that they have and how well stocked their forest are, in other words, how many trees they have per acre and how close that is to the optimum number of trees.

And that's Washington Ag Today. I'm Greg Martin, thanks for listening on the Ag Information Network of the West.

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