Small forest landowners - including many land trusts - own a combined 200 million acres across the United States. Opening the carbon market to this segment has the potential to significantly mitigate climate change by facilitating land trusts and partners to conserve more land and steward it effectively to store and remove carbon from the atmosphere. However, the prohibitively high costs of project development, monitoring, reporting, and verification have previously prevented land trusts from participating in the voluntary carbon market. City Forest Credits (CFC) is the national nonprofit carbon registry for greenhouse gas emission reduction and removal for tree projects in or near cities and towns. CFC provides a way for land trusts, local governments, and other entities that manage urban forests to finance conservation projects that contribute to the health and well-being of people and the environment. The American Carbon Registry (ACR) recently adopted a new methodology designed for small landowners to protect forests via deferred harvest on private forest lands. This opportunity is available for land trusts through Finite Carbon’s CORE Carbon platform. In this session, participants will learn about these new and growing opportunities for land trusts to generate significant financial resources from harvest deferral, forest preservation, and reforestation carbon projects on lands up to 5,000 acres and hear from two land trusts near Cleveland and Chattanooga which have developed carbon projects to power their conservation work.