Miramichi Forest Carbon Projects
RainCloud Forests has developed and manages six world class forest carbon projects on 16,500 ha of private forestlands surrounding Miramichi, NB, Canada.
This collective of innovative and leading edge forest carbon projects change how forests are managed in Atlantic Canada and beyond. Over the next 30+ years, the projects will:
- Remove and sequester significantly more carbon
- Accelerate the restoration of ecological characteristics of rare Acadian Forests
- Produce sustainable volumes of high value large logs
- Support local economies
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The six Miramichi Forest Carbon Projects generate ~125,000 VCU’s per year on an ongoing basis. Interested buyers please contact us:
The Miramichi Forest Carbon Project are a group of six independent projects on 16,500 hectares located near Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada that are managed by RainCloud Forests.
The Acadian Forest is one of the rarest forest types in North America, with less than 5% of these forests remaining.
The projects shift from typical clearcut, short rotation industrial forest management to a continuous canopy, selective harvesting strategy. This approach significantly enhances the climate benefits from these forests, while also actively accelerating the restoration of key species and ecological characteristics of the Acadian Forest.
A restored Acadian Forest is uniquely well suited to forest carbon with a high diversity of large, long-lived, and highly resilient tree species that can be managed to remove and store significant amounts of carbon.
Restoring Tolerant Hardwoods
Creating Vertical and Age Structure
Growing Large Trees
Retaining Continuous Canopy
Verified Carbon Units
The projects are certifying under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), the worlds largest carbon offset certification program. Each project issues serialized and fully traceable Verified Carbon Units on the Verra Registry.
Carbon Removals
The project create a high proportion of new and additional atmospheric carbon removals each year. This provides the opportunity for offset buyers to not only offset their remaining emissions, but in fact to remove their current or historical emissions from the atmosphere.
Acadian Forest Restoration
The projects actively manage to accelerate the restoration of key ecological characteristics of the Acadian Forest through maintaining a continuous canopy, redeveloping forest structure, and restoring a diversified mix of shade tolerant hardwood and confer species.
MIRAMICHI FOREST CARBON PROJECTS:
KSM FOREST CARBON PROJECT
The 5,500 hectare Kluthe Sustainability Management project is designed to support the unavoidable global emissions of the parent company, while restoring the Acadian Forest ecosystem.
Acadian FOREST CARBON PROJECT
The Acadian Forest project is led by ER Capital, with the key objective of offsetting the avoidable emissions of the ER Capital group and related portfolio companies around the world.
CITIZEN:FOREST FOREST CARBON PROJECT
The Citizen Forest project is designed to follow the principles of a “Dauerwald” or Permanent Forest, which protects and enhances biodiversity, carbon sequestration and other ecological values within a working timberland.
Miramichi timberlands forest carbon project
The Miramichi Timberlands project is owned by an investment group with the objective of piloting innovative forestry methods that optimize the financial and ecological returns from timberland in the Acadian Forest and beyond.
Lamaja forest carbon project
The Lamaja project is a family-owned venture that looks at building long term, generational asset value, while supporting the climate and ecological restoration of coastal forests.
Deeg forest carbon project
The Deeg project is a family-owned venture that looks to build long term asset value within an ecological framework that creates both climate and timber benefits over the long run.