Anew - Columbia River Forestry Project
Improved Forest Management
Forestry
プロジェクト概要
The Anew - Columbia River Forestry Project is designed to improve forest management across a large, conservation-owned forest landscape in the Lower Columbia River region. It addresses the common practice of short, even‑aged rotations by private landowners in the area. Instead, it focuses on sustainable forest growth and selective maintenance harvests that prioritize wildlife habitat, water quality, and overall forest health. The project maintains on‑site carbon stocks to deliver climate benefits through additional carbon storage. It spans about 13,393 acres across southwestern Washington and northwestern Oregon, and is owned by Columbia Land Trust, a non‑profit that conserves land along the lower Columbia River.
The project implements improved forest management with an emphasis on primarily uneven‑aged silviculture. This approach supports longer rotation lengths and healthier, more resilient stands. While commercial harvesting is expected to occur, it is managed less intensively than the regional baseline. Greenhouse gas benefits come from greater carbon stored in live trees above and below ground, as well as standing dead wood. The project applies permanence safeguards through a risk assessment and buffer, and it accounts for market leakage with conservative deductions to credited outcomes.
The project is enrolled in a programmatic development approach that supports a multi‑site design. Columbia Land Trust is the landowner and project proponent. Anew Carbon Development serves as the offset developer, coordinating implementation, modeling, reporting, and monitoring. Resilient Forestry conducted the forest carbon inventory, and an accredited verifier conducted third‑party verification. In addition to climate benefits, the project properties are managed for conservation outcomes that include habitat for threatened species, watershed protection, and recreation and education opportunities.