You’ve invested in your land. Now it can pay you back.
We help you unlock new revenue through sustainable forest management.
Share some basic details about your property. No commitment required.
Our team assesses your forest’s eligibility and models your income potential at no cost to you.
You’ll receive an estimate of your earnings and a clear picture of what membership looks like for your land.
Members receive their first payment within a few weeks of joining.
Our Improved Forest Management (IFM) Program helps forest owners unlock new revenue through sustainable forest management designed to work with how you already manage your land.
Through climate-smart forestry practices, you can manage your land sustainably while maintaining control of your land and your harvesting decisions.
Our program creates a new revenue stream that complements your existing forestry, ranching, or agricultural operations.
With over a decade of experience, we offer the confidence, expertise, and market access that only an established program can provide.
Our team of foresters, analysts, and carbon market specialists work directly with landowners to design projects that maximize long-term financial and environmental benefits.
Meet our members
“This program allows our uniquely diverse working forest to thrive while generating steady, conservation‑driven income.”
Three Peaks Maple (3,000 Acres), Vermont
Enrolling with Chestnut Forest Carbon Works ensures this land will remain a uniquely diverse working forest. The program’s steady annual income supports the many activities that keep this property thriving, while protecting the essential co‑benefits that large forest landscapes provide, including richer biodiversity, cleaner water, healthier soils, and meaningful carbon sequestration and storage.
We have your back
Trust your legacy to the experts.
Our market‑leading improved forest management program helps landowners turn their forest assets into new income, guided by a team recognized for its deep expertise in forestry and carbon markets.
A Chestnut Carbon Program
Forest Carbon Works is a part of Chestnut Carbon, a leading developer of nature-based solutions in the U.S.
Reduce your carbon footprint with our high-quality, nature-based carbon solutions developed by expert foresters, carbon scientists, and land management specialists.
Our afforestation and improved forest management carbon projects have benefits far beyond carbon sequestration. We’re cultivating biodiverse forest ecosystems and supporting local communities along the way.