Improving Forest Carbon Sequestration and Storage by Establishing Supply Chains for Low-Quality Wood Material and Incentivizing Sustainable Forestry Practices

Notice: _On April 14, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the cancellation of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities (PCSC). The USDA plans to reform the program into the Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP) initiative. Contact your local USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) for more information on how to apply to the AMP initiative. _

This project pilots an incentives program to advance sustainable climate-smart forest management and create additional low-quality climate-smart wood market supply chains. Nearly every participant would be small scale or underserved, who would receive direct payments for retaining larger and higher quality trees. The project's partners would market the resulting climate-smart commodities, leveraging their well-established working relationships with buyers who require the low-quality wood material.