Carbon offset scheme gives the Yurok tribe a new way to make money while improving wildlife habitat

Carbon offset: The Yurok tribe in California is measuring trees and constructing an inventory to calculate not how many board-feet of timber they can sell but how much carbon dioxide the trees can sequester. — TNS photos

The tribe’s forestry programme is one of more than two dozen operations across California that have generated offsets for the state’s growing carbon market.

This winter, Yurok tribe forestry crews will be four-wheeling down muddy fire roads, hiking through steep, slippery brush and trekking across more than 8,000ha of forest to count and measure trees.