LandVest is pleased to welcome Joshua McDorman as Project Manager, Mitigation Banking & Environmental Crediting, further expanding the firm’s expertise in natural capital, conservation, and environmental markets. Josh joins the [...]
For decades, LandVest has been the industry leader in the brokerage and management of institutional and private timberland in North America. Much of the acreage LandVest represents is productive working forestland, managed for sustainable timber production and recreation. Today, properties are increasingly identified by our team of brokers and foresters as having additive environmental assets beyond traditional land values.
LandVest has worked with many of these important properties over the past 53 years. Our team is proud to have helped steward millions of acres for and into the hands of conservation groups, public agencies, and private investors who recognize the importance of alternative-use values. Conservation attributes of forest properties may include avoided-conversion, easement development and/or stewardship opportunities, carbon sequestration and storage, water quality, plant and animal habitat enhancement, threatened and endangered species occurrence, and much more.
Investors interested in acquiring forestland may encounter properties that have a conservation easement, while other ownerships may have conservation attributes yet to be monetized. Each circumstance offers different yet important conservation opportunities. In the first case, the new landowner stewards the eased property forward, a task just as important as initiating the development of a new conservation easement.
With growing climate concerns as a result of CO2 emissions and ambitious corporate pledges for net neutral carbon emissions, forestland is a leading space for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing. As financial and industrial owners gain an increased awareness for corporate responsibility and ESG, forestland investments provide an exceptional vehicle to deliver real and lasting results.
Notable Conservation-Oriented Transactions
Cabin Bluff, GA
Cabin Bluff (GA) |10,300 acres sold in 2018 to The Nature Conservancy
One of the largest undeveloped and entitled coastal properties on the eastern seaboard.
Thought to be the oldest hunting club in the United States, dating back to 1827.
Protection of longleaf pine, maritime, and coastal swamp forest important to the federally-listed gopher tortoise and eastern indigo snake.
Land Report 2018 Conservation Deal of the Year."
Chadbourne Tree Farm, ME
Chadbourne Tree Farm (ME) | 15,408 acres sold in 2020 to the Conservation Fund
Mutli-generational ownership with many regional stakeholders.
Adjacent to White Mountain National Forest and other protected lands.
Protects miles of river frontage and thousands of acres of watershed associated with the Crooked River and city of Portland, Maine.
Offers public access to outdoor recreation and trail connectivity.
Oakley Forest, VA
Oakley Forest (VA) | 2,922 acres sold in 2017 to Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
Conservation-minded seller who wished to see their family legacy of environmental stewardship preserved.
Located in historically significant region with Civil War battlefield sites spread throughout immediate vicinity.
Located in a high-growth county now offering public hunting and recreation.
Leopold Memorial Reserve, WI
Leopold Memorial Reserve (WI)| 1,024 acres sold in 2015 to a private, conservation-minded buyer
Conservation-minded seller who wished to see the property stewarded forward by private conservation buyer (rather than a formal conservation easement).
Situated on the banks of the Wisconsin River in the immediate area of famed conservationist Aldo Leopolds inspirational thinking grounds.
LMR features historical significance, superb recreational appeal, working agricultural lands, hundreds of acres of forested lands, and a multitude of conservation principles and amenities.
Raquette River, NY
Raquette River (NY) | 13,244 acres sold in 2019 to the Conservation Fund
Located in the heart of the Adirondack Park Preserve.
Benefited by a conservation easement into perpetuity.
The property parallels over 11 miles of the Raquette River, a state-designated Scenic River, and includes the summit of Mount Matumbla, the highest point in Saint Lawrence County.
Conservation easement lends strong support to ongoing commercial forestry operations and private leasing with a minimum of forest management restrictions.
Spruce Creek Timberlands, NY
Spruce Creek Timberlands (NY) | 3,398 acres sold in 2020 to the Open Space Institute
Adjacent to the Adirondack Park Preserve.
Namesake Spruce Creek, several tributaries, and nearly 900 acres of associated wetlands flow through the property and drain to Mohawk River.
This water resource provides drinking water for the city of Little Falls.
Enhances wildlife connectivity in the region, provides public access and recreational opportunities.
LandVest is pleased to welcome Joshua McDorman as Project Manager, Mitigation Banking & Environmental Crediting, further expanding the firm’s expertise in natural capital, conservation, and environmental markets. Josh joins the [...]
LandVest is helping shape a growing market at the intersection of investment performance and environmental stewardship with the recent sale of a large-scale mitigation bank portfolio—an asset class gaining traction among institutional and private investors alike.
The Appalachia Mitigation Bank Portfolio, brokered on behalf of Ecosystem [...]
2025 marked another remarkable chapter for LandVest and our Land Investments group. Throughout the year, we pushed forward a diverse portfolio of projects that stretched across the country and touched every corner of the land and natural-capital.
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