Green Finance Institute – The Lyme Timber Company case study: conservation easements

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Since 1976, Lyme Timber, a private timberland investment management organisation that focuses on forest-related investments in the US and Canada, has been working to conserve threatened working forests and prevent them from being converted for other uses.

Historically, one of Lyme Timber’s core investment strategies has been the sale of working forest conservation easements. This involves working with conservation organisations to identify large working timberlands that will attract conservation funding, buying them, working with government natural resource agencies to assemble funding for easement purchases, and conserving the timberlands in perpetuity while returning the proceeds of the easement sale to investors.

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Green Finance Institute – The Lyme Timber Company case study: conservation easements

The Green Finance Institute published a case study on Lyme's history of conserving forests.

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