talking about an operator decision to take land out of production and most land owners are not apprised of this and don’t always take part in their discussion and decision. Mr. Van Vorhiss said 50% of the land in the Mississippi Delta are absentee owners. He said it is not steam roller effect. Carbon is very slow year after year and it is another cash crop and it is not just forest it is agriculture. He said thy can participate in other forms such as no till. He discussed Indigo Agriculture who is going big into the carbon credits in addition to the crops they are growing. He asked how do we bring these eyes of economical services to the land. Ag is a part of this and will play a large role in supplying credits as well. Mr. Hofmann asked if you do reforestation on ag land and to reforest it the operator gets that. He said there is an opportunity there will be a benefit of this. He said they are building the structure and the credits can flow through this. Mr. James said the object is start on how to establish the credit for existing land. He said the partner has always been DOF. Mr. David stated Dr. Spethman said they see a demand side for the carbon market and geographic boundaries are the market and the demand will outdo the supply. He asked how do they plug that into the EPA model? There is a bit of a source race to take advantage of the ag lands to the extent we can have a non extracted capitalism that imports dollars within the commonwealth and they are way ahead of the curve in establishing this model. Mr. Van Voorhis is selling on the demand side and they have a 50 lb bucket of stuff and they are dealing with the demand. They will improve ground rent and it will drive in improving forestlands and put us in a position to grow soil organic matter to get higher product for the farmer.

## Update of Sentinel Landscapes Partnership - Terry Lasher, VDOF

Mr. Lasher stated there are sentinel landscapes in an effort to lead with partners on how to capitalize on military structures, partnerships to maintain five different goals in the commonwealth, Leveraging land ownerships within the commonwalth with the largest landowners and see that there are military installations that are directing the economy. He discussed the shared goals JLUS study with the branches put together to see if land use is compatible or not compatible. He said they are trying to make sure all the structures are compatible and target the active management forestland. Greg Evans and he had a conversation with the DOD and the readiness environmental protection intuitive to look at sentinel landscapes and approve or disapprove them and they can get up to 5.8 credit on the REPE application. They used out on 5.1 million dollars in the past in looking at conservation rural demographic incentives. He said they are also involved with the department of military affairs and this is not a project that happens overnight. REPI funds and REPI sentinel landscapes was not approved initially and will be released in the first quarter of 2020. He said they have several letters of partners with tentative meetings set up with DOD and REPO partners in January 2020 where they will formalize things there. Mr. James said they will level into this what the role is with the FOR moving forward at the March meeting. Mr. Lasher said there are a lot of opportunities moving forward. Mr. Byrnes asked if Senators Kaine and Warner are aware of this and Mr. Lasher said they are promoting within their localities in linking a corridor within the landscape. He sad they have a number of partners in leveraging the seaboard and they are on the right path. He discussed the selection committee is made up of military officials and that was to get them involved to get our applications approved.