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Logan Yonavjak

Logan Yonavjak
Business Development Officer
lyonavjak@wri.org|+1 (202) 729-7717

Logan is the Business Development Officer for New Ventures, WRI’s center for environmental entrepreneurship. In her previous role at WRI Logan was a Research Analyst with the Southern Forests for the Future project.

The goal of SFF is to scale up economic incentives (such as payments for watershed services and forest carbon offsets) for private landowners in the southern U.S. to conserve and sustainably manage their forests. Logan received her Bachelor’s Degree with Distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Geography, with a concentration in Geographic Information Systems. She is currently enrolled in a part-time MBA program at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

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Bringing Ecosystem Markets to Scale in the Southern United States
Submitted on March 14, 2012
For the most part, Ecosystem Markets still linger in the early stages of development. There is much more theoretical work to be done to set up environmental credit markets, including carbon offsets and payments for watershed services. But more pilot projects can also help these markets evolve and show how they might work in the real world. Development pressures in the U.S. South often mean that...

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Carbon Canopy Initiative Aims to Sustain Appalachian Forests for Climate and Certified Timber
Submitted on February 6, 2012
While much has been written from a theoretical perspective about markets for ecosystem services, few on-the-ground projects currently exist. Yet the projects that do exist provide one of the best...
Conservation Easements: a Good Investment for the U.S. South
Submitted on September 14, 2011
With forests being converted at a rapid pace in the South, conservation easements are one of the most promising approaches to conserve and sustainably manage them. A conservation easement is a...
What Woodland Owners Should Know About Forest Carbon Offsets in the U.S. South
Submitted on September 7, 2011
This piece was written with Paula Swedeen of the Pacific Forest Trust A new issue brief, released today by the World Resources Institute and the Pacific Forest Trust, looks at the economic...
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