Anew - Bayfield County Forest Project
#9of 145 in REDD+#23of 389 in United States#14of 195 in American Carbon Registry (ACR)
Audit Analysis
A Wisconsin forest carbon project under ACR with a 20-year crediting period, strong permanence safeguards (16% buffer pool, 40-year reversal-risk agreement, no reversal events), and a highly conservative 40% leakage deduction. The first monitoring period shows over-delivery relative to the pro-rata ex-ante expectation, but five material findings (calculation errors, documentation gaps) required corrective action, and the project-specific baseline and absence of FPIC temper the overall assessment.
Red Flags
- Five material findings in the verification report (decay-class inconsistency, bark-ratio error, scale-slip discrepancies, buffer-reduction mismatch, silvicultural description errors) required corrective action before issuance
- FPIC was not conducted and no grievance mechanism is documented, despite the project being on private forestland in Wisconsin
- Baseline is project-specific rather than jurisdictional or standardised, increasing sensitivity to local management assumptions
Credit Vintages
| Issued | Retired | Available | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 420,980 | 18,944 | 402,036 | |
| 2022 | 137,775 | 41,553 | 96,222 | |
| Total | 558,755 | 60,497 | 498,258 |
Risk Indicators
Combined test, VVB-confirmed
16% buffer, 40-yr agreement, no reversals
40% quantified deduction
Project-specific, not jurisdictional
Safeguards mentioned, FPIC not conducted, no grievance mechanism
CORSIA and CCP status not stated
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