The reconstruction after the fire is not low cost. For example, recent fires of Los Angeles, for example $ 164 billion in losses of property and capital. But there is no restoration of the forest, and several thousand acres leads several million dollars, grant Canary, co -founder and general director A mast is really usefulTechcrunch said.
“If you are the owner of the land and the cultivation of these trees will take 60 to 80 years old, every money manager will literally look like their money.”
The biggest cost of afforestation is to deal with deceased, burned trees. They are often cut, arranged and burned on the spot. “This is the cheapest way to do it,” said Canary.
Canary said that MAST has today developed a way to pay for afforestation, without the owner of the land who will have to wait many years for the collection of wood or apply for coal loans. Instead of smoking what is left, Mast will collect and bury trees to prevent breakdown – and sell resulting coal loans.
Mast has recently collected $ 25 million for the development of a recent company, said the company only TechCrunch. The round was run by Pulse Fund and social capital, with the participation of Seven Seven Six. The first startup project will probably be affected by a fire of poverty in Montana, which swept in 2021.
The biomass funeral also avoids sending more soot into the air, but without proper preparation of the place can still release methane and carbon dioxide.
In most soils, wood breaks down when microorganisms crunch at cellulose, releasing methane and carbon dioxide.
Mast has a different approach. The startup will woven trees in the area of wealthy clay, which limits the flow of air and water, suffocating the activity of microorganisms. The holes are up to 30 feet deep and cover up to three acres. After throwing dead trees inside, the mast, fill the hole with clay and other natural materials, identical to the construction of landfills.
After completing MAST, he’ll organize the burial place with monitors to make sure that the wood does not spread. The foundation, the North -Western Permanence Foundation, to watch and maintain space for the next century, i.e. the minimum duration of the resulting coal loans. If something is unsuitable, the foundation can make repairs to prevent decomposition.
Because coal will remain locked in trees, the mast can sell up to 30,000 tons of coal loans, the revenues of which can increase by 900 acres.
Kanary founded a mast ten years ago, when Droneseed, who, like the suggested name, used drones to re -move the scars by a fire.
He soon realized that a low cost way of spreading seeds is only a part of the problem; The company would have to find a source of seeds, and efforts to afforestry are simpler thanks to seedlings grown in nurseries, not seeds scattered by drones. So Droneseed purchased two other corporations, Silvaseed and Cal Forest Nurseries and modified its name to the mast forest again.
However, the startup builds biomass from scratch.
It takes data and develops technology to determine where biomass burial needs to be in the field of fireplace. The goal, as Canary said, is to use a data platform along with the sale of a carbon loan to speed up afforestation in places of fires in the Western United States
“The implementation of the restoration project would take three to five years,” he said. “We can do it in six to 12 months.”