Mast Reforestation

“From a VC perspective, you're like now combining hardware with biology, With software, like talk about like the double black diamond of a startup, like that's really difficult.”

“So that was we exited there, but the natural fit there is when we were doing these projects, the number one cost, because these projects were post-fire, was removing the top cost was removing the fire-killed trees.”

“We're monitoring for methane and CO₂ The data that's been coming back over the last year is fantastic. We're way below what we modeled. Definitely way below what is allowed. So, like, we are not seeing that decomposition.”

“Even if I wanted to, like, we wouldn't have the customer adoption to pay for those credits if it could have gone to a mill or it could have gone to an energy facility or something along those lines.”

“What we're seeing is that we are seeing not only more and more high-severity fires where forests don't come back, they end up in a persistent early seral phase, which is nice fancy words for, like, ten-foot-tall brush for, like, the next, you know, decades, if…”

“So, we are taking fire-killed trees. So, these are trees that have been impacted by the bad fire, not the good fire. They're totally dead. They're a fuel risk. And they're, wow, there's a lot of acres of them. We're burying them, and that stores the carbon tha…”

“So we excavated down 20 feet we buried the logs. About ten million pounds, or 171 logging trucks worth of trees. 6000 gross tons would be 4000 after deductions from a registry.”

“And then the credits that we generated, like, we sold out within two days of issuance of credits. Took us a couple weeks to, like, paper the contracts. But our buyers are Bain. Bain Consulting, not known for being tree-loving hippies. Like, very aggressive and…”

“Seed constraint was such a hard constraint, and we'd spent two to three years also with the seed vessel, and like, really dialing that into the Have less variability and more consistency was going to be a challenge and so having spent a number of years on the …”

“Like, we have a photo that we use in our pitch materials and things and communicating to investors, and we call it the Mordor shot. Like, that's the sort of type of, like, forest that we, like, enter.”

“We sold out our first project with what are called anti-credits, or credits that take carbon in the and how much carbon they will capture in the future into account and then our subsequent projects what was the buyer feedback? What's the customer feedback? Lik…”

“Because of what I just described about mass events and the difficulty in collection, and the, it was highly undervalued because things are, in the forestry space, are a commodity, and being able to take and apply that resource with the seed zones and then bein…”