Drax partners with Molpus Woodlands to fuel BECCS operations in the Southeast US

The sustainable fiber supplied will enable high-quality carbon removals, to be sold as credits on the voluntary carbon market HOUSTON, Jan. 31, 2024 — Carbon removals and renewable energy company Drax Group has announced a new partnership with Molpus Woodlands Group (Molpus). The agreement will provide Drax with an option to purchase sustainably sourced woody […]

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Trace Carbon Solutions and Molpus Woodlands Group Announce the Evergreen Sequestration Hub in Louisiana

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 27, 2023 Trace Carbon Solutions, LLC (Trace) and Molpus Woodlands Group (Molpus), on behalf of a client, announced today that they have signed a servitude agreement providing Trace with exclusive rights to develop and operate a carbon sequestration site, to be called the Evergreen Sequestration Hub (Evergreen Hub), on approximately 20,000 […]

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Molpus Woodlands Group Expands Scholarship Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2023 Ridgeland, Mississippi—Molpus has expanded the Molpus Woodlands Group Annual Scholarship Program to help bring further diversity to the forestry management profession. Through a partnership with five new universities, the expansion is increasing Molpus’s program to ten universities located throughout the timber growing regions of the U.S.  Five new scholarships […]

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  • New Endowment Created to Manage Funds Arising from U.S.-Canada Settlement

    Ottawa, Canada/Jackson, MS – The United States Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Inc., (Endowment) today formalized incorporation as a not-for-profit to receive $200 million in funds to promote sustainable forestry and to assist timber-reliant communities. The grant that will capitalize the Endowment was made under the terms of the recently signed Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) […]

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  • The Molpus Woodlands Group acquires more than 41,400 acres and closes its first jointly managed timberland investment fund

    The Molpus Woodlands Group, LLC (MWG), a timberland investment management organization headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, and its partners, Molpus Woodlands Advisors and Salient Partners, L.P. (Houston, Texas), have announced the closing of its first jointly managed timberland investment fund. The fund was closed at $149 million and has placed over 90% of investors’ capital to […]

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  • Molpus Woodlands Group acquires more than 165,000 acres in Alabama

    The Molpus Woodlands Group, LLC (MWG), a timberland investment management organization headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi, has acquired 165,000 +/- acres of timber rights located in Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa and Walker Counties in eastern Alabama for $87,750,000 from TC&I Timber Company, LLC, a wholly owned company of the United States Steel Corporation Plan for Employee […]

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