Green Diamond

What Green Diamond does

Green Diamond Resource Company is a sixth-generation, family-owned forest products company founded in 1890 (originally as Simpson Logging Company) and headquartered in Seattle. It owns and manages approximately 2.2 million acres of timberland across nine states in the western and southern United States, including wholly owned operations in Washington, Oregon, California (anchored by the Korbel Tree Nursery), Montana, and the Southeast, plus the Green Diamond Management Company subsidiary that operates the Twin Creeks timber portfolio. The company is among the five largest U.S. timberland owner-operators, with 100% of its forests certified to the FSC and SFI sustainable management standards.

The business operates five revenue lines: (i) timber sold directly to local sawmills for lumber and related products; (ii) wood chips exported via the company's Humboldt Bay facility (one of only three West Coast facilities capable of loading ocean-going vessels) to pulp mills in Japan, China, and the U.S., plus compressed wood pellets for European energy markets; (iii) forest carbon credits from 14 Improved Forest Management and Afforestation/Reforestation projects spanning 700,000+ acres across five states, with over 7 million mtCO2e issued by year-end 2025; (iv) third-party forest management and co-investment services through Green Diamond Management Company, which manages 628,000 acres including the Twin Creeks joint venture with Silver Creek Capital Management; and (v) woody biomass products sold to biorefineries and renewable energy buyers. Underlying technology includes LiDAR forest canopy mapping, heavy-lift drones (~45 lb payload) for equipment transport, and the Korbel Nursery's proprietary genetic tree improvement and redwood propagation program, supplemented by remote water temperature monitoring across nearly 100 fish-bearing streams.

Revenue mechanics are predominantly B2B and direct: timber and chips transact at negotiated unit prices pay-as-you-go, while carbon credits are sold through a dedicated sales team via spot transactions, annual renewals, or multi-year offtake agreements (Microsoft is a named buyer); forest management services earn multi-year contractual fees from institutional investors. Pricing is not publicly disclosed across any line. Green Diamond harvests less than 2% of its land per year under continuous-cover silviculture, holds 60+ species Habitat Conservation Plans covering 1.5M+ acres, and serves as operating partner to Silver Creek Capital Management through the 2015 Twin Creeks joint venture.

Name

Green Diamond

Legal name

Green Diamond Resource Company

Website

https://greendiamond.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1890

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Green Diamond Resource Company is a sixth-generation, family-owned forest products company that owns and manages 2.2 million acres of timberland across nine U.S. states, operating five businesses: timber, wood chips, forest carbon credits, biofuel, and third-party forest management services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sustainable Forestry and Timberland Management

NAICS

Timber Tract Operations (11311), Forestry and Logging (113), Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products (113210), Support Activities for Forestry (115310)

SIC

Forestry (800)

akta.pro primary industry

Timberland & Forest Asset Management (IMAMAJAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP) Harvesting (Resins, Mushrooms, Botanicals) (IMAMAAAK), Natural Resources — Timberland (FSAAAKAH), Real Assets — Timberland & Forestry (FSAHAIAJ), In-Woods Comminution & Size Reduction (Chippers/Grinders) (AFAMAJAF)

Keywords

• Sustainable timber management
• Forest carbon credits
• Biomass energy products
• Industrial wood chips
• Timberland co-investment

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Timber Sales: Green Diamond's primary source of revenue comes from sustainably harvested timber. The company manages a continuous cycle of harvesting and replanting across its 2.2 million acres. Timber products include logs for lumber and other forest products supplied to local sawmill customers, creating household essentials, community infrastructure, and long-lasting homes. Products include lumber for homes and furniture, and other products such as floral greens.
2. Wood Chip Exports: Wood chips are generated as a byproduct from sawmill processing of harvested trees. Green Diamond operates a chip facility on Humboldt Bay, one of only three West Coast facilities that can load ocean-going wood chip vessels. Chips are sold to pulp mills in Japan, China, and the U.S. domestic market. Whole-log chipping also processes smaller logs and other tree parts (tanoak, red alder, Sitka spruce) for domestic pulp facilities. Southeast timberlands produce SFI-certified wood chips for European markets as compressed wood pellets.
3. Carbon Credits: Green Diamond develops, owns, and manages U.S.-based forest carbon projects across Compliance and Voluntary markets. The portfolio includes 14 Improved Forest Management (IFM) and Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation (ARR) projects spanning 700,000+ acres across five states. The company has issued over 7 million mtCO2e sequestered and issued as carbon credits as of end of year 2025. Credits are sold via spot transactions, annual contract renewals, and multi-year offtake agreements.
4. Biomass and Renewable Energy: Green Diamond supplies woody biomass products including pine needles, sawdust, and slash from thinning projects to biorefineries. Southeast operations supply European customers with wood chips and pellets for power plants and home heating. The company is also involved in research projects such as Waste to Wisdom to identify ways to make biomass fuel production more cost-effective.
5. Forest Management Services: Through Green Diamond Management Company, the company provides active forest management, responsible harvesting, and log marketing services as a co-investor in various forestry operations. Services include management to enhance forest health and productivity, marketing and sales, evaluation and acquisition of forest lands, and recreation access and carbon ecosystem services assessment. Revenue comes from fees for managing co-investment portfolios.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Green Diamond is a forest products company that owns and manages 2.2 million acres of working forests across nine U.S. states, harvesting and selling sustainable timber logs to sawmills, producing and exporting wood chips to pulp mills globally, developing and selling verified forest carbon credits across compliance and voluntary markets, supplying woody biomass for renewable energy customers, and providing third-party forest management services to institutional timber investors.

Product overview

Green Diamond operates as a single unified offering of forest products and land management services across five business lines, rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core portfolio consists of Timber (sustainably harvested logs for sawmills), Wood Chips (residual wood for paper and pulp mills via their Humboldt Bay facility), Co-Investment and Forest Management (outsourced timberland management for institutional investors via Green Diamond Management Company), Forest Carbon Credits (Improved Forest Management and Afforestation/Reforestation projects generating verified carbon offsets), and Biofuel/Renewable Energy (biomass products for power plants and biorefineries). These products share the common thread of sustainable forest stewardship and operate from Green Diamond's 2.2 million acres of owned and managed timberlands across nine western and southern U.S. states.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Timber Sustainably harvested timber logs (100% third-party certified to FSC or SFI standards) sold directly to local sawmill customers for the production of lumber, residential and commercial construction materials, furniture, and other forest products. Less than 2% of Green Diamond's lands are harvested each year and are immediately replanted with native species.
• Wood Chips Clean, high-quality wood chips supplied to pulp mills in Japan, China, and the U.S. domestic market. Whole-log chips from tanoak, red alder, and Sitka spruce are processed for U.S. Northwest domestic pulp facilities; SFI-certified compressed wood pellets from Southeast timberlands are supplied to European power plants and home heating customers.
• Co-Investment and Forest Management Services Active forest management, responsible harvesting, and log marketing services provided as a co-investor through Green Diamond Management Company. Services include management to enhance forest health and productivity, marketing and sales, evaluation and acquisition of forest lands, and recreation access and carbon ecosystem services assessment. The company manages 628,000 acres of working forests in the U.S. West and Southeast.
• Forest Carbon Credits High-integrity, third-party validated forest carbon credits from 14 Improved Forest Management (IFM) and Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation (ARR) projects spanning 700,000+ acres across five states (California, Oregon, Montana, Mississippi, Alabama). Available for compliance and voluntary carbon markets via spot transactions, annual contract renewals, and multi-year offtake agreements.
• Biofuel and Renewable Energy (Biomass) Woody biomass products derived from trees, plants, and forest byproducts for renewable energy and fuel. Southeast operations supply European customers with wood chips and pellets for power plants and home heating; pine needles, sawdust, and slash from thinning projects are sold to biorefineries. Green Diamond also participates in research projects such as Waste to Wisdom to identify cost-effective biomass fuel production methods.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% of forest lands certified to FSC and SFI sustainable forest management standards
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered minor, major, ongoing and core.

• Trust for Public Land (Washington)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Columbia Land Trust and partners secured funding to protect 30,000 acres of working forestland through a forestland protection initiative involving Green Diamond.
• Humboldt Bay Trail South PartnershipminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Green Diamond participated in a groundbreaking ceremony celebrating the start of construction on the Humboldt Bay Trail South, a trail project connecting communities near Green Diamond's California timberlands.
• Arbor Day FoundationmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022In 2022, Green Diamond partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation to reforest 37,000 acres of the 110,000 acres of Green Diamond forestlands scorched in the 2021 Bootleg Fire in Oregon. Together they replanted 9.7 million trees across the fire-affected landscape to create fire-resilient ecosystems.
• Twin Creeks Timber LLC, The Conservation Fund, and WKOmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Twin Creeks Timber LLC (a joint venture between Green Diamond and Silver Creek Capital Management), The Conservation Fund, and WKO partnered to acquire SDS Lumber Company and SDS Companies, expanding Green Diamond's timberland assets in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.
• Trust for Public Land (Montana)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Green Diamond is working with Trust for Public Land on the ongoing Montana Great Outdoors Conservation Project and Lost Trail Conservation Area, which would protect crucial wildlife habitats and migration corridors in northwest Montana.
• MicrosoftmajorOthers · 1 January 2020Microsoft purchased carbon offsets from Green Diamond, representing a significant carbon credit customer relationship supporting Microsoft's corporate sustainability and net-zero commitments.
• Yurok TribemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Green Diamond completed a multi-year land sale enabling the Yurok Tribe — the largest tribe in California — to re-acquire approximately 50,000 acres of forest. The land surrounds four salmon-sustaining streams including the Blue Creek watershed. The Tribe financed the purchase through selling carbon credits from two Improved Forest Management projects via California's Cap and Trade program. Ongoing collaboration includes wildfire mitigation knowledge sharing.
• Trust for Public LandmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012Green Diamond partnered with Trust for Public Land to enter a conservation easement protecting over 20,000 acres of coastal forest near the southwestern end of Puget Sound in Washington, guaranteeing the land will never be developed and will remain open for public access.
• Western Rivers Conservancy, State of California, and Yurok TribemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2008A partnership was formed between Western Rivers Conservancy, the State of California, and the Yurok Tribe to purchase 48,000 acres of temperate rainforest along lower Blue Creek from Green Diamond. The transaction enabled tribal land re-acquisition around the Klamath River's salmon-sustaining streams.
• Cal Poly Humboldt (formerly Humboldt State University)ongoingStrategic or Co-development PartnerGreen Diamond has funded and partnered with Cal Poly Humboldt on multiple research studies including Pacific fisher occurrence studies, dusky-footed woodrat abundance studies, and ongoing research partnerships with university biologists on forest wildlife and aquatic species monitoring.
• Oregon Department of Fish and WildlifecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGreen Diamond cooperates with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon State Police, Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through a Travel Management Area providing public access to over 600,000 acres of Oregon timberlands for hunting, fishing, and recreation.
• National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServicecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-signers alongside Green Diamond on the California Aquatic Habitat Conservation Plan (AHCP) signed in 2007. These federal agencies provide regulatory oversight and scientific guidance for conservation of salmon, trout, and other aquatic species across Green Diamond's California timberlands.
• Ducks UnlimitedminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRichard King Mellon Foundation grants support Ducks Unlimited's work in the Upper Klamath Basin, where Green Diamond operates timberlands. Green Diamond collaborates on conservation and restoration projects in this region.
• International Longshoremen and Warehouse UnioncoreOthersThe International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union carries out waterfront operations at Green Diamond's Humboldt Bay chip facility (anything expanding beyond the dock), in line with local regulations. The facility supports union workers and operations in Humboldt Bay.
• Waste to Wisdom Research ConsortiumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGreen Diamond participated in the Waste to Wisdom research project at its Big Lagoon forest tract in Humboldt County, California, seeking ways to make biomass fuel production more cost-effective and collaborative.

Scale indicators19 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Pachama: Technology-driven forest carbon marketplace and project developer. While not a timberland owner, Pachama operates in the same forest carbon credit supply chain that Green Diamond monetizes through its 14-project portfolio, serving overlapping corporate buyers like Microsoft.
• NCX (Natural Capital Exchange): Forest carbon marketplace and project facilitator working with U.S. family forest owners. Competes with Green Diamond for the same pool of corporate carbon-credit buyers and represents both an alternative channel and a potential partner for forest carbon origination.

Regional players

• Hampton Lumber: Privately held, family-owned forest products company with sawmills and timberlands concentrated in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. Comparable to Green Diamond's PNW operations in species mix (Douglas-fir, redwood), customer base, and sawlog marketing model.
• Stimson Lumber: Privately held forest products company with ~145,000 acres of Oregon timberland and sawmill operations. Comparable to Green Diamond's Oregon and Washington divisions on private timberland management and sawlog sales in the Pacific Northwest.

Direct peers

• PotlatchDeltic: Public timber REIT (~1.9M acres) with timberlands, wood products, and real estate segments across the U.S. South and Pacific Northwest. Directly comparable to Green Diamond on Southern and Western timberland ownership, certification, and downstream log marketing.
• CatchMark Timber (Triple T Holdings): Timberland investment and management company (~275,000 acres across U.S. South and Pacific Northwest). Highly comparable to Green Diamond's Twin Creeks co-investment model as a third-party timberland asset manager for institutional capital.
• Rayonier: Public timber REIT owning ~2.7M acres of timberland with timber, real estate, and forest resources segments. The company's former CEO (David Nunes) currently serves on Green Diamond's board, underscoring direct operational overlap in U.S. timberland management.
• Sierra Pacific Industries: Privately held, family-owned forest products company owning ~2.4M acres of California timberland with integrated sawmill, plywood, and biomass operations. Closest private-peer analog to Green Diamond given overlapping California footprint and vertically integrated model.
• Weyerhaeuser: Largest private timberland owner in the world (~12.4M acres) and a publicly traded timber REIT. Operates the same integrated timber-to-products model with sawlog sales, land sales, and wood products manufacturing — the most directly comparable U.S. timberland operator to Green Diamond at scale.

Broad incumbents

• Plum Creek Timber Company (merged into Weyerhaeuser): Formerly the largest private timberland owner in the U.S., now part of Weyerhaeuser. Plum Creek's former president (Thomas Lindquist) sits on Green Diamond's board, indicating direct strategic comparability in Western and Southern timberland operations prior to the merger.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/GreenDiamondResource
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/green-diamond-resource-company

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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