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  • Removing Carbon While Helping Communities Reduce Wildfire Risk

    Discover how working with Charm for carbon removals reduces wildfire risks and protects communities in fire-prone areas.
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    The Wildfire Challenge

    As wildfires have worsened in recent years, fire-prone communities have seen catastrophic fires wipe out neighborhoods, damage infrastructure, and evacuate thousands of people from their homes.

    This is scary, and the risks are increasing as shifts in climate patterns bring hotter, drier weather to the Western United States.

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    Current Approach: Burn Piles

    Many wildfire mitigation projects start with targeted removal of biomass. This reduces risk to life and property, and brings forest management in line with how these forests thrived for thousands of years.

    When piles are burned, they emit carbon from the wood back into the atmosphere, create air hazards from smoke, and leave burn scars in the forest.

    Often these excess fuels are left in the forest, providing fuel for future wildfires. In order to reduce that risk, projects need biomass removal. However, there is way more biomass than places that will use it.

    Excess fuels that don't have a market for lumber or firewood get piled, ready to be burned on site when weather conditions carry low wildfire risk.

    A machine unloads wood chips into a red trailer attached to a tractor on a sunny day, with a large tent in the background.

    Charm's Innovative Solution

    Over 50 million acres of forest need to be treated in the US to mitigate catastrophic impacts from wildfires. 

    Today, communities, fire management authorities, and forest managers work together to develop a collaborative approach to wildfire risk. Together, they've identified steps that can help reduce risks in communities near wildfire-prone areas. 

    However, these plans require biomass removal that doesn’t emit carbon into the atmosphere. 

    That’s where Charm comes in. Charm partners with local communities & forest managers to remove the excess biomass from the forest and permanently sequester the carbon for thousands of years.

    Voices from the Field: Our Partners for Progress

    Katlyn Lonergan, Program Coordinator at National Forest Foundation, smiling outdoors
    The Inyo National Forest is a biomass utilization desert, which is a problem for wildfire fuel load reduction projects. I don't envision [Charm] being the one solution that fits all, but it can absolutely contribute to these biomass materials that we don't have an answer for yet.

    Katlyn Lonergan

    Program Coordinator, National Forest Foundation

    Tyler Mathews, CEO of Altitude Forestry, speaking outdoors in a forest setting
    Wildfire mitigation is about finding sustainable solutions to manage forest health. By working with Charm, we’re able to take what was once a fire hazard and transform it into something that actively benefits the environment.

    Tyler Mathews

    CEO, Altitude Forestry

    To learn more about Charm's partnership with the National Forest Foundation, read our Heatmap feature here.

    Ready to partner to help mitigate wildfires?

    Together we can make fire-prone communities more resilient to wildfire, and reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire

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