Environmental firm EcoTrust has won approval for the first carbon offset project methodology in improved forest management (IFM) under the Voluntary Carbon Standard. Ecotrust is active in forestry in the US Pacific North West and Canada, and based in Portland, Oregon. The essence of its project approach on IFM is to identify the increase in carbon stock in trees’ above-ground biomass, dead wood and wood products resulting from the application of a longer harvest cycle.