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Impact in an Unprecedented Year
The Forestland Group (TFG) is pleased to present its 2020 Impact Report. TFG’s second annual impact report reviews the company’s performance in environmental, social, governance and leadership impacts. It includes quantitative data on 80+ metrics that are categorized...
Blake Stansell Speaks at the 2021 Forestry and Agriculture Investment Summit
The Forestland Group’s CEO, Blake Stansell, will be speaking at the Forestry & Agriculture Investment Summit! To join the conversation please register here. Full agenda available here. #forestry #agroforestry #impactinvesting #regenerativeagriculture...
The Forestland Group Team Additions
In the second half of 2020, The Forestland Group hired two new exciting professionals. Cakey Worthington and Will Caldwell have added incremental expertise and depth to the TFG transaction team. Their talent and background expand TFG’s in-house forest carbon project...
The Forestland Group Reports on 25 Years of Leadership in Sustainable Management, Publishes Inaugural Impact Report
Today The Forestland Group (TFG) issued two reports reviewing the company’s approach to sustainable management of natural forests to create economic and ecological value. These reports represent the company’s efforts to track non-financial performance as well as...
Tommie Herbert joins The Forestland Group as Director of Investor Relations
I am excited to announce our latest staff addition to The Forestland Group team. Tommie Herbert joined us in March as our Director of Investor Relations. Tommie will be responsible for new product development, investor outreach, and relationship management. Her...
Local Lands, Global Impacts – Bowles Rice Views & Visions
West Virginia’s Forests Deliver Benefits into the Future The Forestland Group (TFG) was founded by a group of foresters, ecologists and economists with diverse backgrounds in academia, conservation NGOs and business who had a shared vision to create innovative...
Sustainably Managed Timberland Attracts Conservation Buyer
Chapel Hill, North Carolina – The Forestland Group announced today the sale of 153,000 acres in southwestern Virginia to a fund controlled by The Nature Conservancy. The property, consisting of two tracts known as the Highlands property and Lonesome Pine were owned,...
Anderson-Tully Company (ATCO) sale to The Nature Conservancy and State of Mississippi
The Nature Conservancy and State of Mississippi are proud to announce the acquisition of approximately 17,816 acres in Issaquena and Warren Counties from Anderson-Tully Company (ATCO). The Conservancy and Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP)...
Duke Timberland Investments for Professionals 2018, (Stansell lead instructor and Finkral course instructor)
Experienced practitioners and instructors of forest finance leads this 2-day workshop. Participants will analyze the fundamentals of timberland investing, including: global trends in the asset class, market development in ecological services, risk assessment and...
Valuing & Managing Carbon On The Landscape
A walk & talk in the woods with the Forestland Group & Dogwood Alliance. Video link This conversation evolved out of a unique collaboration of companies and organizations working to value forests for their climate benefits called the Carbon Canopy, learn more...
The Forestland Group wins the 2018 FSC Leadership Award
“...for earning FSC certification on its entire portfolio of 1.8 million acres across 59 properties and 22 states, the first Timber Investment Management Organization (TIMO) in the world to do...
Climate Action Reserve Presents Award to The Forestland Group
The Climate Action Reserve presented its annual Project Developer Award to The Forestland Group for achieving the most emissions reductions. Kaarsten Turner Dalby (pictured right), VP Ecological Services, accepted the award. Read more in the May 2015 Newsletter.
Improving forest health for wildlife resources in MN, WI, and MI
$10 Million Forest Restoration Project Will Benefit Imperiled Birds, Dozens of Wildlife Species in MN, WI and MI Over 20 Federal, State, Academic and Private Conservation Organizations to Partner in Effort. A new large forest management and habitat conservation effort...
Complete 500,000 Tonne California Carbon Offset Transaction
Blue Source, The Forestland Group and Shell Complete 500,000 Tonne California Carbon Offset Transaction Forestry Offset Deal Signifies Growing Confidence in California’s Cap and Trade System San Francisco, CA and Chapel Hill, NC – Blue Source and The Forestland Group...
First TIMO Improved Forest Management Project for California Carbon Market
Finite Carbon and The Forestland Group Register the First TIMO Improved Forest Management Project for California Carbon Market. Read More...
The Big U.P Deal
The Forestland Group's involvement in "the Big U.P Deal" featured in the article "A Good Cut" in The Nature Conservancy magazine, Volume 2, 2012."For the Forestland Group, sustainable logging isn't merely a nice thing to do for the planet, it's also a smart thing to...
Nature Conservancy purchases 13,350 acres within the Dragon Run & Mattaponi watersheds
The Nature Conservancy today announced that it has purchased 13,350 acres of ecologically significant forestland within the Dragon Run and Mattaponi watersheds from the Hancock Timber Resource Group. Read More...
Roy O. Martin transaction announcement.
RoyOMartin to Sell Louisiana Sawmill, Timberland, and Timber-cutting Rights Alexandria, Louisiana, February 26, 2008: RoyOMartin announced today the pending sale of its LeMoyen, Louisiana, hardwood sawmill, approximately 10,000 acres of hardwood timberland, certain...
Real Assets Manager of the Year Nominees
The Forestland Group has garnered a following among nonprofits in the timber space for its commitment to sustainable forestry. Timberland is becoming an increasingly important asset class as nonprofits look to real assets as a safe haven from the volatility of equity...
The Forestland Group, LLC (TFG) and Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. today announced the purchase and sale of approximately 100,000 acres of Wisconsin land.
TOMAHAWK, Wis. - The Forestland Group, LLC (TFG) and Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. today announced the purchase and sale of approximately 100,000 acres of Wisconsin land. Through the purchase, an investment vehicle managed by TFG, a long-term timberland investment...
Ohio’s largest single tract of privately held forest now forever protected
VINTON COUNTY, OH - Representatives of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) have finalized agreements to permanently protect 15,896 contiguous acres in Vinton County as a working forest and to assure its continued public access for outdoor recreation. The...
TFG receives Corporate Sustainable Standard Setter Award
New York, NY - At the American Museum of Natural History, in the Hall of Ocean Life, the Rainforest Alliance recognized companies and individuals who are leading the movement toward sustainable certification. Corporate Sustainable Standard Setter Awards went to The...
The Forestland Group earns certification on 1.5M Acres: First TIMO in the world to have entire portfolio FSC-certified.
The Forestland Group, LLC (TFG) earned FSC forest management certification for the approximately 1.5 million acres it currently manages in fourteen states - Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, Missouri...