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Our Story

Combining resilient forest restoration with biomass burial to remove carbon and restore wildfire-affected landscapes, Mast is the world’s first and only end-to-end tech-led reforestation company.

Mast, Present, and Future

Since the beginning…

Key moments in Mast's history starting with its days as Droneseed

 
 
 
MAST ENTITIES

Collaborating to protect the biological legacy of western conifer forests.

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.

Mast Services

Mast provides reforestation support from seed to finance.

Learn more about ways Mast can help
MEET THE TEAM

Leadership at Mast

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Grant Canary

Founder & CEO

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Paul Quinn

Chief Financial Officer

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Katherine Wong-Velasco

Senior Director, PeopleOps

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Jeanethe Falvey

VP of Marketing

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Maria Huyer

VP of Product

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Brady Paron

SVP, Carbon Market Partnerships

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Bill Layton

Director, Forester Operations

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Kea Woodruff

General Manager, Silvaseed

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Nik Larum

General Manager, Cal Forest Nurseries

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Tricia Speidel

Senior Executive Assistant - CEO

IN THE FIELD

From project sites to our nurseries.

Our team is there from the first seed to the final stage of biomass burial—restoring forests and removing carbon every step of the way.

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Lisa Gonzales-Kramer, Trever Santora, and Bill Layton with in MT1 contractor, Bob, on site in Montana.
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Grant Canary checking on seedling growth at Silvaseed. 

 

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Assistant Forester, Rich Schonenberg, assessing one of many wood decks at MT1 during the project's early stages.

What’s in a name

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

Professional Arborist, Taylor Passetti, from Sierra Cone, collects ripe Douglas-fir cones, first scouted and monitored by the Mast team.
MINI-DOCUMENTARY

Cone People

Directed by our Senior Product Designer, Trever Santora, Cone People is a smokey joe love story to the network, the people, whose livelihoods hold the genetic legacy of northwestern forests in their hands. These are some of the people preserving future forests one bushel at a time.

Cone People

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