Josh Parrish

Director of the American Forest Carbon Initiative
The Nature Conservancy

Josh is the Director of the American Forest Carbon Initiative (AFCI) at the Nature Conservancy. The AFCI provides forest carbon tools, incentives and programs incentives to forest landowners across the U.S. such as the Working Woodlands Program, Forest Carbon Coops and the Family Forest Carbon Program.

Josh holds a bachelor’s degree in Professional Accountancy from Penn State University. Josh is a native of Pennsylvania’s Central Appalachian Mountains and a landowner himself.

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