Wildfire is reshaping forests across the West faster than traditional reforestation models can respond. In 2025, Mast added a new pathway to address this crisis.
This year, Mast successfully delivered the first biomass burial project paired with on-site forest restoration. By securely storing fire-killed trees underground, we’re transforming material long treated as waste into durable carbon removal, and the resulting carbon revenue helps pay for reforestation where it’s needed most.
Our work sparked important conversations across the market. Journalists, researchers, and climate reporters dug in with us to examine how biomass burial fits into the carbon removal landscape, what permanence means in practice, and how wildfire recovery can be funded at scale.
We’re deeply thankful to the journalists who took the time to understand the details, the partners who helped design and deliver this work, and the landowners who trusted Mast to restore their land. The highlights below reflect a year of real progress—from reporters who joined us onsite to those who interviewed our team from overseas—and a shared commitment to restoring forests for the long term.
“...Mast has devised a way to pay for reforestation today, without landowners needing to wait decades to either harvest timber or claim carbon credits.” —TechCrunch
“A technology known as biomass carbon removal and storage offers carbon credits that retires more quickly than other reforestation credits. Another bonus: it replants scorched landscapes.” —Trellis Group
3. Quantum Commodity Intelligence covers our progress at MT1
“This wood is typically "unmerchantable," but if left in the forest, it decays naturally and can fuel wildfires.”
4. E&E News explored Mast’s biomass burial model as a new form of carbon removal emerging from wildfire recovery.
“Mast Reforestation is selling carbon-removal credits as it restores forests that were incinerated by wildfires.” — E&E News
6. Scientific American placed Mast’s work within the broader scientific discussion around wood vaulting and climate mitigation.
“The carbon credits they sell will be used to fund the reforestation of the burned and denuded acreage, a program Canary hopes to repeat in burned forests throughout the West. “ —Scientific American
“Gentry first reached out to Mast looking for help planting trees, not burying them. There was no way she could afford to restore the forests across the entire ranch. It turned out, though, that the easiest way to get new trees on the landscape was to bury the old ones.” —Inside Climate News
9. Tacoma Tribune went inside Silvaseed to show how seed supply underpins forest recovery as wildfires worsen.
“Hidden inside an unassuming complex in the small southwestern Pierce County city of Roy is the largest private tree-seed bank in the western United States. Here, about 5,000 pounds of seeds are collected every year and 6 to 10 million seedlings are sprouted every year in the field and five acres of greenhouses on site.” —Tacoma Tribune
“The company Silvaseed is a key player in the region. Based southeast of Olympia in Roy, Washington, Silvaseed collects, cleans, catalogues and preserves seeds." —Bellamy Pailthorp (KNKX)