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Restoring working lands after wildfire

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  • Post-fire clean-up and mitigation
  • Mast's approach and how it works
  • Landowner responsibilities and benefits
THE OPPORTUNITY

New value in your burned trees

Catastrophic tree loss can cause a lot of problems. Instead of burning your fire-killed trees, we can bury them to pay for restoration. We can help your land recover, lower fire danger, and make your land safer for those who use it.

How we work

We use trees lost to wildfire right where we’re working.

This reduces future fire risk and improves functionality of your working lands.

We make sure each project fits your land.

We work with you to identify a suitable location. When done, we restore the ground to its natural shape and revegetate with native species.

We team up with local contractors.

Each project is carefully engineered and implemented to minimize impact on
your land, working with local contractors who know the terrain best. 

I’d like to share with anyone who is a landowner that’s had extreme losses through fire like we have — there is help out there. Mast was exactly what we needed.
— Montana Ranch Landowner
MEET MAST

Our forestry team

We’re on the ground, up in the trees, wherever our projects take us. Here’s some background to get to know us before you meet us.

Mac Lefebvre
Director of Origination
Bill Layton
Director, Forester Operations
Julian Yuh Coleman
Sr. Specialist, Operations
Richard Schonenberg
Operations Forester

Our nursery team

Mast manages and operates two of the largest and longest running nursery operations in the west. Silvaseed, in Roy, WA and Cal Forest, in Etna, CA.

Kea Woodruff
General Manager, Silvaseed
Nik Larum
General Manager, Cal Forest

How can we help?

Choose one of the following:
Team members at Cal Forest and Silvaseed will review your request and the most appropriate nursery for your need will reply.
Landowner Inquiry

How can we help?

Choose one of the following:
  • Team members at Cal Forest and Silvaseed will review your request and the most appropriate nursery for your need will reply.
  • Landowner Inquiry

How burying wood works

More About Mast

With a 153-year legacy in forestry at its Silvaseed nursery, and the largest private nursery in California, Cal Forest, Mast is involved at every step of reforestation—from seed to seedling to sequestration.
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  1. We use fire-killed trees to reduce hazards on the property and enable reforestation operations.
  2. The wood is buried in a low oxygen chamber, where the wood is inert, to keep this carbon out of the atmospheric cycle.
  3. The site is protected long-term with an easement and continuous monitoring.
  4. Carbon credits pay for native, biodiverse reforestation with trees grown in Mast’s nurseries.
Project photos

What it looks like

These photos show five months of work at the ~1-acre Wood Preserve MT1 wood chamber in Bighorn County, Montana—step by step as the land was cleaned up and restored.

Landowner responsibilities

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With a 153-year legacy in forestry at its Silvaseed nursery, and the largest private nursery in California, Cal Forest, Mast is involved at every step of reforestation—from seed to seedling to sequestration.
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Access
Grant Mast long-term, periodic access to the burial site for monitoring. All visits are coordinated in advance with landowner.
Support project integrity
Your land remains yours. We only ask that for 100 years the project site is left alone—no digging or planting big trees that could reach the chamber.
After the work is done
Think of the site like a buried septic tank, once it’s in, it stays out of sight and out of the way. The land on top can still be used for grazing, wildlife, or recreation, with the ground shaped back to how it was before.
Common Questions

Your questions, answered

This may sound simple, and the concept is. But there is more to it to ensure highest quality. We invite you to connect with us to discuss if it's a fit for your property.

Grader next to pile of fire-killed trees staged for chamber loading

  • 500+ acres of burned forest

    Good road access for equipment

    Terrain suitable for logging

  • These projects are funded by private buyers who pay landowners for practices that keep carbon in the ground and improve working lands. We can also help look into government grants or other support if it’s a good fit.

  • Our forestry team will work with you to create a custom restoration plan that meets your objectives. We handle the end-to-end process of finding seed, growing seedlings, and replanting with our two nurseries, Silvaseed and Cal Forest.

More About Mast

With a 153-year legacy in forestry at its Silvaseed nursery, and the largest private nursery in California, Cal Forest, Mast is involved at every step of reforestation—from seed to seedling to sequestration.
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Six months in two minutes

See how Mast's Wood Preserve MT1 project took shape, in a compilation of more than 70,000 images.

More About Mast

With a 153-year legacy in forestry at its Silvaseed nursery, and the largest private nursery in California, Cal Forest, Mast is involved at every step of reforestation—from seed to seedling to sequestration.
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Our stationary cameras captured more than 70,000 images of our work, and a few guest appearances.
MAST ENTITIES

Collaborating to protect the biological legacy of western conifer forests

With a 153-year legacy in forestry and the largest private nursery in California, Mast and its two nurseries are involved at every step of reforestation—from seed to seedling to sequestration.

More About Mast

With a 153-year legacy in forestry at its Silvaseed nursery, and the largest private nursery in California, Cal Forest, Mast is involved at every step of reforestation—from seed to seedling to sequestration.
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Behind our name

Inspired by natural “mast” events—rare bursts of seed abundance that symbolize our mission to restore forests at scale.

More About Mast

With a 153-year legacy in forestry at its Silvaseed nursery, and the largest private nursery in California, Cal Forest, Mast is involved at every step of reforestation—from seed to seedling to sequestration.
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