The Great Hoosier Forest Project will leverage carbon capture credits or similar schemes that will pay for the natural sequestration of carbon in wildlands. However, priority is given to maximizing a native habitat and not maximizing carbon capture/sequestration payments. Any necessary planting will be done with the same primary goal in mind. Proceeds from these payments will be used to bring new land into our organization for further forestation and carbon capture work. Carbon capture credits and associated inflows is not the goal of the Great Hoosier Forest Project but a means to our ultimate goal that aligns with our values.

Solar and other Clean Energy stands to revolutionize our economy and reduce pollution from power generation. However, many people do not like to live next to solar farms and similar clean energy projects or drive by them every day. If the possibility for partnership exists, the Great Hoosier Forest Project may work with clean energy projects to create an aesthetic, green buffer around these projects provided that such work still creates a sufficient area of wildlands and natural habitat. Unbroken habitat is better than a habitat that has a hole in the middle, but some habitat and tree regrowth is better than nothing.

While there will undoubtedly always be a demand for lumber from the trees native to Indiana and sustainable logging is possible, The Great Hoosier Forest Project is not and does not want to be in the business of logging. We see a multigenerational project in generating true, old-growth forests for future generations and the health of our land. We will not log or use similar forest management techniques in land we have reverted back to wild.

With land that is reverting back to nature, there comes a demand to enjoy or otherwise recreate in nature. People rediscovering nature and appreciating the habitat the Great Hoosier Forest Project intends to help create can further interest and demand for the very same. With that in mind, the Great Hoosier Forest Project may pursue limited recreational use of some lands where it may make sense to. That being said, recreation is not our primary goal and so such recreational uses must plausibly lead to more land reverting back to wild than would be held out of natural growth for recreation. Donors and other stakeholders would be involved in any such decisions to ensure such activities align with our mission and priorities of effort.