Forest Carbon Offsets

Carbon markets have the potential to reward landowners for improved forest management and forest conservation. To date, the Over the Counter (OTC) voluntary market represents the greatest [...]

This study compared fire behavior and emissions predictions made from out-of-the-box LANDFIRE data to those made with field-based on-the-ground data. For forested vegetation, all four study sites [...]

Spatial Informatics Group (SIG) partnered with TCNF to develop baseline and Improved Forest Management scenarios for twelve family forest landowners throughout Maine. The NRCS Conservation [...]

Dovetail Partners Inc., Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, and Spatial Informatics Group collaborated with the Aitkin and Cass County Land Departments to form the Minnesota North Woods [...]

Developed a methodology that uses scientifically based models for predicting changes in fire behavior and related emissions, both with and without hazardous fuels reduction treatments. To make [...]

Integrated ecological and economic solutions are increasingly sought after by communities to provide basic energy needs such as home heating, transport, and electricity, while reducing drivers of [...]

SIG developed a method for measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions resulting from implementing California Forest Practice Laws and Regulations. This project, completed to support [...]

Tim Kramer oversees the SIG Carbon team that includes a portfolio of 25 Improved Forest Management projects, encompassing 1,000,000+ acres and 17 million credits in the voluntary and California [...]

Ethel Wilkerson is a Project Manager for SIG Carbon. She is responsible for the development of forest carbon projects. Ethel is an environmental scientist by training with expertise in stream [...]

Maggie’s educational background includes forest ecosystems, natural resource management,  climate vulnerability assessments, and geographic information systems (GIS). Maggie obtained her BS [...]