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Friday, 9:45am

Growing pressure to address climate change has led to multi-million dollar markets for carbon.  In 2007, the value of trade in the voluntary carbon market grew by 240 percent to $331 million.  Learn who is buying, who is selling and how these markets can support working landscapes and encourage conservation.

Speakers

• Todd Graham, President, Aeroscene LandLogic
  Rangelands, revenue and the carbon market
  
• Denise Pranger, Director, Northwest Natural Resources Group
  Carbon Markets - How they could work and options for small forest land owners
  

Moderator

Gerry Gray, Vice President for Policy, American Forests
 

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Todd Graham

Todd Graham is the President of Aeroscene Land Logic, a Montana-based firm providing ranch management, grazing planning, and rangeland health monitoring services to landowners and livestock producers in Northern Rockies states.  Born and raised in Wyoming, Graham obtained a degree in rangeland science from the University of Wyoming and has been studying ranch management ever since.  He focused on adding conservation value to ranches he managed in Wyoming and Montana, while seeking viable livestock operations simultaneously.  Graham serves as Manager for Madison Valley Expeditions, an ecotourism enterprise owned by a Montana ranching association.  He serves on the board of directors of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and has just ended a two-year term as Chair.  Graham works with partners at Beartooth Capital as aggregators through the Chicago Climate Exchange in enrolling landowners to sell their carbon credits on the open market. 

Denise Pranger

Denise Pranger, Executive Director or Northwest Natural Resource Group, has over 20 years of experience in non-profit management, including 10 years with NNRG.  She is responsible for oversight of all NNRG programs, and specializes in Watershed Innovations, NNRG's ecosystem services research and development program.  Denise has experience in forestry based carbon offset credits, was a member of the Forestry Technical Working Group of Washington’s Climate Change Challenge, an initiative of Governor Christine Gregoire, and is now serving on the Jefferson County Climate Action Committee.  Denise has been involved in the FSC movement since 1997 and spent several years as an auditor for the SmartWood program, an FSC accredited certifier, giving her extensive knowledge of regional FSC supply chains. Denise has also served as a Board Member for ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia since 2004.  As president of JLT Resources, LLC (a subsidiary of Jefferson Land Trust) and former Board Member for the Jefferson Land Trust, she is developing a framework that promotes the integration of natural resource economics and conservation.

Gerry Gray

Gerry Gray is Vice President for Policy and oversees the Forest Policy Center at American Forests.  He has extensive experience working on policy issues related to the restoration, protection, and management of public and private forests. Since the mid-1990s, his policy work has focused on advancing community-based forestry and helping to bring the voices of local and regional partners to the national policy arena.  In addition, Gerry has worked on issues related to forests and climate change and forest-based ecosystem services.

Prior to joining American Forests in 1988, Gerry worked as a state forest resource planner with the Division of Forestry, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and with the U.S. Forest Service, Northeastern Area, State and Private Forestry.  He holds a Doctor of Forestry degree from the University of Minnesota (1987), a Master of Forest Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (1982), and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University (1978).