Forest Input Resilience Fund
Fund Overview
The Forest Inputs Resilience (FIR) Fund is designed to unlock a critical piece of infrastructure that is currently holding back the U.S. reforestation market: access to flexible, appropriately structured capital for nurseries and other forest input businesses.
The fund’s impact goal is to ensure that high‑quality, climate‑adapted tree seedlings are available to meet growing demand so that restoration and reforestation can actually deliver on climate, community, and biodiversity objectives.
Why This Matters
Without modern, resilient nursery infrastructure, communities cannot reliably access the right seedlings at the right time, in the right place to restore forests, protect watersheds, and sequester carbon at scale. Aging ownership, underinvestment, and distorted market incentives are already leading to capacity loss, just as public and private demand for climate‑adapted planting is growing. Addressing this upstream constraint is essential to unlock billions of dollars for nature‑based solutions and to build a fair, durable reforestation economy in rural communities.
Investment Strategy
The Forest Inputs Resilience (FIR) Fund is a dedicated debt vehicle that provides flexible, impact-first capital to nurseries and other forest input businesses that are critical to sustainable forestry and restoration projects. FIR focusses on:
Financing growth and modernization of nursery infrastructure and operations.
Supporting working capital needs so nurseries can manage inventory, seasonality, and contract cycles.
Enabling ownership transitions that keep high‑quality, community‑anchored nurseries operating for the long term.
Building and maintaining a robust pipeline of investments across the U.S. afforestation and reforestation value chain.
Alongside capital, FIR offers business support and technical assistance, helping portfolio companies strengthen operations, resilience, and impact over time.
The fund is designed and managed by a team that combines climate finance, forestry, and impact investing expertise, with a clear, SDG‑aligned impact framework that links every investment to climate, community, and market outcomes. Overall, FIR enables long‑term resilience rather than short‑term extraction, structuring deals that allow operators to modernize and grow, supporting ownership models that keep value in rural communities, and measuring success in terms of seedlings supplied, acres restored, and communities strengthened, alongside financial performance.
