Introducing Forest Forecast: See What's Possible for Your Land
Introducing Forest Forecast: See What's Possible for Your Land For most landowners, their forest is one...
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Liability Insurance for Your Land
When you own land, it’s easy to forget how much liability you carry. You may not see it, but every tree, trail, and visitor brings a layer of risk. At...
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After the Storm: What Landowners in Kentucky and Missouri Need to Know
The recent tornadoes that swept through Kentucky and Missouri have left a trail of devastation. Homes damaged, lives disrupted, and forests changed. A...
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Top 5 Benefits of Solar Leasing for Landowners
For landowners looking to increase revenue, solar leasing is becoming one of the most compelling opportunities out there. Instead of relying solely on...
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Prescribed Fire: The Benefits and Risks of Controlled Burns on Forestland
Introduction Fire has shaped landscapes for millennia. For private landowners, prescribed fire, also known as controlled burning, is a proven tool to...
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New Bipartisan Bill Would Deliver Tax Relief for Forest Landowners After Disasters
Critical Context When hurricanes, wildfires, ice storms, or pest outbreaks hit, the financial impact on forest landowners can be devastating. Timber,...
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Generational Stewardship: Gayle Townsend Boclair’s Family Land Story
Land Rooted in History “This is our piece of the earth.” Gayle and her siblings recall their father, Dewey Townsend, telling them this throughout thei...
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American Forest Foundation's Path to 100K Acres Enrolled
This sponsored article is a highlight of a program available on NCX. In 2024, the American Forest Foundation (AFF) reached the milestone of 100,000 ac...
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President Trump's New Executive Orders on Domestic Timber Production, Explained for Private Forest Landowners
Critical Context To help you understand the executive orders issued by the White House earlier this week, we’ll outline important context about public...
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Protect Your Forest with The Southern Pine Beetle Checkup from NCX
Southern Pine Beetle (SPB) is a small but destructive insect that poses a significant and ongoing threat to forests in the Southeastern United States....
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What Do Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China Mean for Forest Landowners?
Introduction The recent threat of tariffs by the U.S. on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China has introduced a wave of uncertainty across various in...
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Growing your Natural Capital Net Worth: 5 Ways to Think Like the "Richest" Landowners
Every landowner is managing a portfolio of Natural Capital Assets. The landowners who truly stand out—the ones we might call the “richest” in the full...
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How Recreational Land Leasing is Transforming Property Income: A Modern Landowner's Guide
The old "No Hunting" signs are coming down. Across America, savvy landowners are discovering their acreage holds more value than they imagined - and i...
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Choose the Best Programs for Your Land with Personalized Comparisons
Every landowner has different goals. Some want to simply generate steady income while maintaining control of their land. Others are focused on improvi...
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Land Rich? What's your Natural Capital "Net Worth"?
Introduction Your land can be a source of prosperity or it can be a drain on your finances. The Natural Capital Assets–trees, soil, water, and e...
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Natural Capital Scorecard - How does your land score?
Today, NCX is launching the Natural Capital Scorecard. For the first time, any landowner can track the performance of their natural capital portfolio...
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Your Land is a Natural Capital Portfolio
Introduction Your land is a portfolio of natural capital. Just as your financial portfolio might consist of your home, stocks, bonds, and other financ...
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2025 Outlook: Biggest Threats and Opportunities for Private Landowners
As we enter 2025, private landowners are presented with both remarkable opportunities and significant threats. From the expansion of new markets to un...
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Natural Capital Program Consideration Pocket Guide
There are hundreds of natural capital programs available to landowners, but they can be hard to understand and compare. Whether you are considering co...
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Protect Your Land with Loss Detection
Storms, diseases, and timber theft can destroy the value of your forest quickly and unexpectedly. A slow response can turn a small problem into...
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Natural Disaster Resources for Forest Landowners
With the recent devastation caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, and pest outbreaks in the southeast and wildfires throughout the west, landowners through...
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What is the process to develop a carbon project and sell carbon credits?
Carbon is stored in your trees and soil, but the process for actually turning that carbon into an asset that can be bought and sold is complex. To get...
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Top 4 Things to Know About Recreational Leasing on Your Land
Figuring out the best way to safely monetize recreational leasing as a landowner can be confusing. There are numerous ways you can earn income from le...
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NCX Membership Updates, September 2024
NCX Membership Updates, September 2024 NCX's mission is to create fair and honest natural capital markets for landowners. If you ever feel we are not...
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Announcing NCX Membership for Landowners
Today, NCX is launching NCX Membership to give landowners like you clarity, confidence, and peace of mind about your land. Do you have questions like:...
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Why Did NCX Stop the 1-Year Forest Carbon Program?
In 2018, NCX started running our own forest carbon program that has since been discontinued. The program's 1-year term length was extremely popu...
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How I Increased My Annual Land Income with NCX
Hello, I’m Will Smith. I’m originally from Maine but now reside in Chicago with my wife Andrea and our two children, Coren and Preston. Back in the la...
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From City Life to Sustainable Farming: Jef Kahn's Journey with NCX
I am Jef, raised in Queens, NY. After finishing college, the only thing I was certain of was that I wanted to live in the country. In the mid-'80s, I...
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Family Land: A Guide to Multi-Generational Land Management
Growing up on a family farm or forest creates a special bond between your family and the land. Families make treasured memories in the woods and field...
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NCX Eligibility Maps: Which of your acres qualify for each program?
Introduction NCX helps landowners like you find the right programs for you and your land. There are a bewildering array of programs for landowners, bu...
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NCX Road Tour: Top 5 Takeaways
NCX founders Zack and Max hit the road to meet with farmers, ranchers, and forest owners all across the US. Here are some of our top takeaways.
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Comparing New Income Opportunities for Your Land in 2024
Are you a landowner looking for new income opportunities from your land? NCX recently hosted an informative webinar in collaboration with LandCAN that...
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NCX on Tour: AL, GA, MS, OH, PA
NCX is hitting the road to connect with landowners like you! In February, we'll be visiting Alabama , Georgia, Mississippi, Ohio, and Pennsylvania . W...
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Comparing Payment Schedules Between Natural Capital Programs
Two otherwise similar programs might have two different payment schedules. One might do a payment upfront. Another might do a significantly larger pay...
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No Trees, No Problem. Natural Capital Programs for Farmers and Ranchers
Are you a farmer or rancher? Own open, arable land? NCX can help you create additional revenue streams from your land through the many nat...
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NCX: A Step-by-Step Guide for Landowners
Do you want to know your land’s true value? Welcome to NCX , where your land is a canvas for purpose, pros...
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What is a Carbon Credit and How do I Grow One?
Are carbon credits a good revenue stream for your land? To make an informed decision, you’ll need to understand what a carbon credit is and how...
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Discover Natural Capital on Your Property
Your land might be worth twice as much as you think. The emerging nature-positive economy is changing how land is valued and paying landowners w...
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NCX Marketplace Walkthrough - Recorded Webinar
Earlier this week, NCX CEO Zack Parisa hosted a walkthrough of the new NCX marketplace for landowners and answered questions about how landowners can...
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Your Guide to the Nature-Positive Economy
Today we're announcing a major expansion of the NCX platform to better serve landowners like you. Log in to NCX.com to discover and compare doze...
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An update from NCX co-founders Zack Parisa and Max Nova
NCX’s mission is to accelerate the transition to a nature-positive economy. Achieving this mission will require a massive effort across billions of ac...
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4 Things Holding Back the Carbon Market
On March 29th, a group of climate leaders including Zeke Hausfather of Stripe, Alicia Seiger of Stanford, Elizabeth Sturcken of Environmental Defense...
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The ICVCM Core Carbon Principles Leaves Carbon Buyers and Sellers Still Looking for Guidance
This post was originally posted on LinkedIn, by Dr. Spencer Meyer, Head of Science at NCX Yesterday the The Integrity Council for the Voluntary...
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Sharing Our Code For Accessing FIA Data
At NCX we rely heavily on our nation’s forest inventory program called the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA), a critical program run by the U.S. For...
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Limits to Growth: What’s Holding Back the Carbon Market?
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On-Demand Webinar: The Path to Nature Positive Carbon Credits Starts with Better Measurement
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PopTech Talk on the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Carbon Offsets
Zack Parisa, CEO of NCX, spoke with his former Yale School of Forestry classmate, Michael Coren, climate journalist and member of t...
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Why Measuring Biodiversity Co-Benefits in Carbon Credits Matters
As the market for carbon credits continues to grow, it's essential that we bring biodiversity "along for the ride," not just because it's the right th...
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NCX interview at COP27 Innovation Zone
Zack Parisa, CEO of NCX, attended COP27 this November. While at Climate Action’s Sustainable Innovation forum, he discussed the role that natu...
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An update from NCX co-founders Zack Parisa and Max Nova
Earlier today, we took the incredibly difficult step of reducing the size of our team by 40%. This is the hardest decision we’ve had to make since fou...
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A conversation about forests and foresters with the CEO of SAF
NCX was thrilled to sponsor and participate in the Society o...
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NCX: Building Markets for All the Values of Forests
NCX stands for the Natural Capital Exchange. The idea with the Natural Capital Exchange is to put all of the benefits of natural systems on...
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A Risky Climate Bet: Promises vs. Results in Carbon Credits
Carbon credits incentivize action that benefits the climate. How and when we credit that benefit matters. As of today, nearly 95% of the promised carb...
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Introducing the Time Value of Carbon
We are pleased to announce the publication of the peer-reviewed paper “The Time Value of Carbon Storage” in a forthcoming issue of Forest Policy and E...
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NCX on the SEC's Proposed Climate Risk Disclosure Rules
On June 17, NCX submitted comments in support of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s ( SEC ) proposed climate risk disclosure rules . The pr...
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Consulting Forester Spotlight: Shavonne Sargent
Lillian Hogan, Landowner and Forester Success Manager, had the pleasure of connecting with Shavonne Sargent, Consulting Forester, and Principal at Sil...
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NCX Raises $50m to Fund International Expansion and New Natural Capital Markets
Series B financing round is led by Energize Ventures and joined by J.P. Morgan, TIME Ventures, among others. SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--<a targ...
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CEO Zack Parisa Gives a Call to Action Narrated by Edward Norton
NCX CEO, Zack Parisa, gives a call for action for equality based climate solutions. Focusing on the importance of large-scale, accessible, and low-cos...
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Webinar: Will They Make the Cut? Assessing Additionality in Forest Carbon
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CEO Zack Parisa is a Pritzker Award Candidate
I sat down with CEO, Zack Parisa, in light of his recent nomination for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award . You're in the ranks of Clar...
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Clarifying 4 Forest Carbon Project Misconceptions
A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece called “Forests: Good Intentions but Mixed Results,” laid out some common misconceptions of forest carbon p...
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Inclusion in forest carbon markets, from landowners to climate investors
As we work to address the herculean challenge of climate change, one thing rings true - if we don’t do this together, it isn’t going to work. That’s w...
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Mapping US and global forests
A comprehensive guide to forest mapping products and datasets, comparing resolution, data sources, and applications for understanding Earth's forests.
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Measuring carbon to enroll in carbon projects
This article first appeared in the April 2021 issue of the Forestry Source : Vol. 26 - No 4. Forest carbon management has been a hot topic lately. For...
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New Name, Same Dedicated Team
SilviaTerra is now NCX. The NCX name stands for Natural Capital Exchange and connotes our bold focus on the future. Our product and our company name a...
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Fixing forest carbon - when you know better, do better
It’s time to improve forest carbon Forests can and must be a key part of the climate solution in this critical decade. But recent articles from ProPub...
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Carbon Accounting: A Practical Overview
This article was first published in the "Biometrics Bits" column of the September 2020 issue of the Forestry Source. Measurements Make Markets Measure...
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Sources of Error in Forest Inventory
This article first appeared in the June issue of the Forestry Source. I remember a time in forestry school at Mississippi State when the professor had...
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NCX CEO Gives Starker Lecture at OSU
Oregon State's College of Forestry invited NCX's CEO, Zack Parisa, to give the first talk in the annual Starker Lecture Series . Last week, Zack laid...
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