Viridis Conservation — keep your land working

Find your conservation system

Match the system to the way your land looks and works.

Start with today's land cover, then choose the management pattern that must continue. Each path below shows what fits, what may continue, and what a future agreement would need to address.

Start here

What does the area you want to conserve look like today?

A mixed property may fit more than one system. Start with the area you want to conserve first; additional areas can be assessed separately.

Mostly wooded

Will planned timber harvest continue?

No — habitat first

Block reserve

Habitat anchor

A contiguous wooded, wet, or wild area managed for habitat, carbon, and mature structure — with safety and restoration work still allowed.

Best fit: A back-forty, woodlot, wetland, or wild parcel where ecological recovery is the main objective.
You can keep: Hazard-tree and life-safety work, invasive removal, low-impact access, capped personal firewood, and fire or fuel treatment where locally permitted and plan-approved.
Must protect: A connected core that can mature toward old-growth structure, shelter wildlife, and hold its minimum protected carbon.
Choose another if: Commercial harvest or development must continue anywhere inside the conserved block.

Key rule: This is habitat-first, not no-touch: active safety and restoration work remain part of stewardship.

Yes — planned harvest continues

Working forest (DFM)

Managed forest corridor

Dendritic Forest Management: a working-forest plan that keeps a branching protected corridor spine through harvest, reserve, and riparian zones.

Best fit: An existing woodlot, timber property, or family forest that needs to remain productive.
You can keep: Locally permitted, plan-approved selective or rotational harvest, variable-density thinning, fuel and hazard work, capped personal firewood, and qualifying salvage under the plan or force-majeure rules.
Must protect: The branching corridor spine, reserve and streamside zones, connected canopy, maturing forest structure, and minimum protected carbon.
Choose another if: Clearfelling, conversion, or cutting through the protected corridor is required.

Key rule: Harvest moves around the protected spine; the corridor set-aside and minimum carbon level do not move with it.

Open or working land

Is the conserved area a narrow line or a broad field?

A narrow line

Hedge corridor

Living connection

A continuous strip of shrubs, trees, or perennial cover that connects larger habitat while the surrounding farm or pasture keeps working.

Best fit: A fence line, field edge, shelterbelt, stream edge, windbreak, or other narrow strip.
You can keep: Farm or graze outside the strip, plus planned trimming, replanting, invasive control, and fence or water maintenance.
Must protect: Continuous cover, a working-land buffer, and a route for wildlife between larger habitat areas.
Choose another if: The strip must be plowed, grubbed, paved, or repeatedly broken into disconnected pieces.

Key rule: Continuity and the parcel's required width both matter; the plan sets the eligible width and keeps every link intact.

A broad field or range

Grassland stewardship

Living perennial matrix

A pasture, rangeland, or crop field restored or maintained as healthy perennial cover; managed grazing and prescribed fire can be required stewardship, not violations.

Best fit: A broad pasture, native range, hay ground, or crop field that can stay in or return to perennial cover.
You can keep: The locally permitted disturbance regime — managed grazing or an approved cut-forage alternative — plus native interseeding, encroachment control, and prescribed fire where locally permitted and plan-approved.
Must protect: Native-grass condition, deep roots and soil carbon, water function, and connected open-land habitat.
Choose another if: The area must be plowed, converted, continuously overgrazed, or left without its required disturbance regime.

Key rule: More trees are not automatically better here: woody encroachment can lower native-grass condition even when total on-site carbon rises.

Still deciding? Start with the physical pattern of the area you want to conserve. The enrollment guide then checks management needs, protected zones, and parcel evidence.

Estimate my land →

The difference

Test an active-stewardship design before legal drafting.

The beta models retained activities, ecological direction, and monitoring evidence. Binding rights, remedies, permanence, and payment terms require counsel, a qualified holder, and signed documents.

Model fire & blowdown response

Compare fuel thinning, fire breaks, and windthrow treatment. A signed agreement and qualified reviewers—not the beta model—determine duties or breach.

Compare harvest, grazing & stewardship

Test management scenarios such as variable-density thinning, rotational grazing, or encroachment control against stated ecological objectives and uncertainties.

Separate observed change from cause

Monitoring can flag patterns for review. It does not automatically determine whether an event was stewardship, harm, force majeure, or a contractual reversal.

How it works

Screen a parcel quickly. Review the consequential steps with people.

1

Pick your shape

Hedge, block, working forest, or grassland — the app overlays it on your parcel and you drag it to fit your land.

2

Model active stewardship

Compare retained activities such as firewood, access, recreation, thinning, grazing, or planned harvest. A future agreement must separately define rights, duties, and treatment of fire or flood.

3

Review a pilot plan

A founding design partner reviews the parcel, evidence boundary, assumptions, responsibilities, and separately drafted agreement before any binding step.

4

Evaluate the market path

The report identifies what would still be required for independent validation, registry acceptance, issuance, sale, and any eventual owner payment. None is active in the beta.

Automation helps organize inputs and calculations. Partner review, field validation, legal agreement, registry decisions, sales, and payouts remain human- and institution-controlled.

Why it holds up

A conservation stack designed to show where each claim comes from.

Managed, with evidence

Monitoring can help distinguish observed change from planned stewardship; field, contractual, and registry conclusions remain separate.

Machine-checked methods

Selected mathematical properties are tested or formally checked and published. That establishes internal consistency—not field truth or registry acceptance.

Earth-observation inputs

NASA GEDI products and Google AlphaEarth embeddings can contribute dated model signals when configured. Their source, coverage, calibration, and uncertainty limits remain visible.

Honest by design

A transparent evidence ladder and visible limitations prevent an estimate from masquerading as an issued unit. Real permanence comes from an enforceable instrument, not software.

Keep your land working. Test the conservation case with evidence.