Helping ranchers profit while improving soil health
Direct consultation, infrastructure planning, and best practices for improving your grazing systems
Hands-on experiences with practitioners who have successfully applied these systems on their ranches
Accelerating improved practices through up front money for infrastructure and recurring payments
When looking at the overall health of an ecosystem, soil carbon can positively impact a multitude of things including:
During the 2024 Expanding Markets Conference, an event hosted by Western Sustainability Exchange, the first-ever panel of five carbon company representatives was put on the hot seat to help explain the most frequently asked questions producers have regarding the carbon markets. Click on the picture to the right to read the entire document.
Since 2017, WSE has been working with Native, a carbon project developer, to create a carbon credit program that pays ranchers and other land stewards for sequestering carbon on grasslands through regenerative grazing practices. This program promotes innovative projects that expand water and fence infrastructure while enhancing landscape function and health, creating more resilient ranching operations, and strengthening rural communities.
Native has created a Help Build™ program, which provides up-front capital and financial security to improve soil health before the income from soil carbon benefits has been realized.
Help Build™ offsets provide funding for fencing and water infrastructure that allows ranchers to increase their number of pastures, decrease the pastures’ size, and increase the speed and number of livestock rotations, thus prolonging rest and recovery on more acres of grassland. This increased rest allows for the accumulation of plant biomass which protects the soil surface, resulting in more significant water infiltration and storage and moderated soil temperatures.
WSE’s Rancher
Coordinator
406.289.0010
astenson [at] wsestaff.org
Adele and her family ranch in Wibaux, MT, and have been enrolled in the program since 2022.
Adele provides logistical support to the program and will assist you during onboarding and grazing planning.
WSE’s Grazing
Outreach
cphipps [at] wsestaff.org
Chelsea and her family ranch near Jordan, MT, which has been in the program since 2021.
Chelsea supports information and education and can help introduce you to the program and how it works.
