The 500-Year Framework
Capital markets operate in quarters; forests operate in centuries. forests.fund closes that gap with perpetual endowment law, disciplined spending rules, and measurement that is the asset class.
≥60%
Endowment Tranche
Permanent capital; only real returns above inflation are deployed. Statutorily inviolable.
≤30%
Impact Tranche
Institutional and philanthropic capital funding restoration with capped returns and milestone escrow.
≤10%
Venture Tranche
High-risk innovation: MRV technology, biochar, agroforestry scale-up, timber alternatives.
Core rules
- Spending rule: maximum 3.5% of the trailing 10-year average real fund value per year.
- Century Trust: land is held by a non-tradable Land Stewardship Company; economic rights are tradable but capped. The land is never sold.
- Generation Review every 25 years re-runs species-migration models and mandates assisted-migration planting.
- Military resilience partnership: training landscapes, border-zone green fences, and strategic watershed security.
Phasing to 2526
- I — Foundation2026–2076
Land securement, MRV build-out, charter hardening
- II — Expansion2076–2151
Corridors connected, 2× real capitalization
- III — Maturity2151–2301
Working old-growth; biodiversity credits dominate
- IV — Perpetuity2301–2526
Self-funding continental public utility for wilderness