Northam Forest Carbon’s mission is to bring carbon sequestration and storage to Vermont landowners.
Northam Forest Carbon is a small nonprofit located in Burlington, Vermont focusing on landowner education and nature-based climate solutions including forest carbon sequestration and sequestration.
Mission
Educate landowners about the fundamentals of carbon sequestration and storage and encourage and facilitate landowners to adopt management practices that will optimize carbon storage and sequestration in order to reduce the carbon in the atmosphere.
Goals
Create resources to educate Vermont’s public and landowners about the role that carbon and Vermont forests play in mitigating climate changeServe as a link between landowners and state agencies, universities, non-profit and other organizations researching and promoting CSS.Advocate for urgent action to mitigate climate changeEducate Landowners aboutrole forest carbon plays in mitigating climate change in Vermontimproved forest management strategies that can enhance carbon sequestration and storage on their land with guidance from their forestershow forest carbon can directly impact our ability to achieve the goals of Vermont's Global Warming Solutions Act
Encourage Landowners as they move towardgreater carbon awarenessimplementing forest management strategieseducating their communities about carbon
Individually our impact may be small but together we can make a significant difference.
What qualifies us to serve as bridge between the state resources and Vermont’s landowners?
NFC’s principle, Tim Stout, is a 40 year landowner in Vermont who has direct experience applying land management strategies to achieve specific goals. Over many years, he has implemented strategies on his property that were directly designed to achieve increasingly greater forest complexity and resiliency, improve the wildlife habitat on his land, and enhance a vital wildlife corridor that runs from Canada down to the Massachusetts border. You can learn more about Tim and his extensive environmental experience in his bio below.
How can NFC help landowners?
We provide resources, education, and support to help landowners understand the role our Vermont forests play in mitigating climate change. You can go to our website to find
information about the significance of carbon storage and sequestration to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere
identify improved forest management strategies to build storage and sequestration assistance calculating the potential amount of carbon stored and sequestered on your property
We are available to help landowners identify potential opportunities they can pursue to participate in carbon markets. We can also connect you directly to foresters who are trained in the specifics of CSS.
We are also working to build a community of carbon-aware Vermonters. We educate the community through lectures and field trips on our farm and provide selected resources in the form of reports, videos, and academic papers about carbon.
Our organization is based in Burlington, Vermont. We also work out of our family farm in Shrewsbury, Vermont, where we are proud to work with several members of the Shrewsbury community on the Shrewsbury Forest Carbon Sequestration Working Group. We provide workshops, talks, and resources for communities and individuals who are interested in learning more about carbon sequestration and storage and how to see their land as a growing carbon sink among other land management strategies.
Please feel free to reach out and contact us if you are interested in hosting a presentation or finding out more about how you can become involved with our work.
Tim Stout
Founder and Principal
Tim Stout is the Founder and Principal of Northam Forest Carbon. As a private landowner in Shrewsbury, Vermont over the last 48 years, Tim has dedicated several decades to preserving 400 acres of pristine forest and fields in central Vermont at the base of Calvin Coolidge State Forest.
Over the last six years, Tim has done extensive research and outreach on forest carbon storage and sequestration and how they can be used to combat the effects of climate change. Working with a gifted group of individuals and organizations across New England and using his own land as a model, Tim is developing proactive strategies to guide other private landowners who share his passion for preserving and managing their land for future generations.
Prior to his forestry management work, Tim’s career focused on national energy policy. Most recently as a senior advisor at E Source, an energy consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado, Tim worked with utilities across North America. Prior to this role, Tim held several senior leadership positions in the energy efficiency and renewable energy department at National Grid, an electricity and gas utility serving more than 20 million customers in the Northeast. From 2002 to 2010, Tim serviced as National Grid’s Vice President of Energy Efficiency and Distributed Resources and was responsible for the implementation of the company’s over $360 million energy efficiency program portfolio in New England and New York. Tim currently serves on the boards of the American Forest Foundation and Vermont Coverts: Woodlands for Wildlife. Tim has served on the board of directors for both the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy and the Consortium for Energy Efficiency. He holds an MA from Boston University and a BA from Middlebury College.
Besides managing his land in Shrewsbury, Tim was a steward of open space in Wayland, Massachusetts for many years. Tim worked with a dedicated group of visionaries to manage Heard Farm in the center of Wayland where they planted a successful 10 acre orchard and reestablished a 50 year orchard that was in serious decline. Heard Farm has many magnificent walking paths and an impressive population of bobolinks.
Tim and his wife reside on the shores of Lake Champlain in Burlington, Vermont.
