A2.5 Silvopasture
Develop education programs and incentives to encourage farmers to incorporate tree planting on farms (e.g., silvoculture, silvopasture, agroforestry, treecropping).
Project Drawdown ranked expanding silvopasture as the ninth largest potential source of reductions in global emissions among the 100 ideas it evaluated and prioritized. (They provide a list of their references.)
The Snohomish County Conservation District has a management template for developing silvopasture projects in the Pacific Northwest, and a shorter fact sheet. The Forest Service’s National Agroforestry Center provides many resources, including a report on four Oregon projects, “Converting A Pasture to A Silvopasture in the Pacific Northwest”.
In the 2019 session, Representative Walsh, a Republican from southwest Washington, sponsored HB 2082, which proposed creating a pilot program funding tree planting along streams on fallow and underutilised agricultural land to cool water for salmon and sequester carbon. Participating landowners would have been paid ten dollars for each verified ton of carbon sequestered. (The bill didn’t make it out of committee.) Sightline has a post about a successful project and some of the issues with current programs.
Carbon Washington also published a flyer about a project.