# Mast Reforestation

> Mast Reforestation is a Seattle climate and forestry company that handles post-wildfire recovery from native cone collection and nursery-grown seedlings through site preparation, planting, monitoring, and finance. Born as drone-seeding startup DroneSeed, it expanded into the less glamorous bottlenecks - seed supply, nurseries, land preparation, and carbon markets - and now sells seedlings, restoration services, reforestation credits, and durable carbon removal credits generated by burying fire-killed wood in monitored, low-oxygen chambers.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Seattle, United States
- **Founders:** Grant Canary (Founder & CEO), Ryan Mykita (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** 43 employees listed on LinkedIn in August 2026; nursery staffing can rise substantially during peak operations.
- **Products:** Native seed services, Seedling production, End-to-end reforestation, Biomass burial carbon removal, Carbon project development and finance
- **Notable:** Obtained early FAA approval to operate swarms of heavy-lift drones for reforestation work., Acquired Silvaseed and Cal Forest Nurseries, creating an end-to-end Western seed and seedling supply chain., Restored thousands of acres across California, Montana, and Oregon.

## Products & services

- **Native seed services** — Cone scouting and collection, processing, testing, storage, seed banking, and species- and site-matched sourcing through Silvaseed and Cal Forest.
- **Seedling production** — Commercial nursery propagation and delivery of native conifer seedlings, with Mast reporting an average of 36 million seedlings produced annually across its operations.
- **End-to-end reforestation** — Assessment, project design, site preparation, traditional seedling planting, selected aerial seeding, project management, and long-term monitoring for fire-affected landowners.
- **Biomass burial carbon removal** — Engineered low-oxygen chambers store unmerchantable fire-killed wood, with sensors and third-party verification supporting durable carbon removal credits.
- **Carbon project development and finance** — Mast structures and sells reforestation or biomass-burial carbon credits to cover upfront restoration costs and provide landowner compensation.

## Achievements

- Obtained early FAA approval to operate swarms of heavy-lift drones for reforestation work.
- Acquired Silvaseed and Cal Forest Nurseries, creating an end-to-end Western seed and seedling supply chain.
- Restored thousands of acres across California, Montana, and Oregon.
- At Henry Creek, deployed more than 1.2 million seeds by drone across nearly 300 acres and helped plant more than 825,000 seedlings across the 891-acre project.
- Completed the MT1 commercial-scale biomass burial chamber in 2025 using more than 10 million pounds of fire-killed wood.
- Delivered 4,277 Puro.earth-issued MT1 credits nine months after excavation began and sold out the issuance in under six weeks.
- Generated more than $1 million in local economic activity around the Montana MT1 project.
- Named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026.
- The company-produced documentary Cone People was selected by multiple film festivals.

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Notified Carbon Streaming that Sheep Creek had significantly higher-than-expected seedling mortality and slower growth; Mast no longer expected to deliver 286,229 forecast mitigation units because the existing plan and budget were not viable.
- **2025-02** — Raised a $25 million Series B and announced MT1, a biomass-burial project intended to finance restoration of roughly 900 fire-affected Montana acres.
- **2025-09** — Completed burial at MT1, storing more than 10 million pounds of fire-killed wood and beginning continuous monitoring.
- **2026-01** — Puro.earth issued 4,277 MT1 removal credits; buyers included RBC, CNaught, Muir AI, and others.
- **2026-04** — Sold all 4,277 MT1 credits in under six weeks, added Bain and BMO as buyers, and began planting more than 6,000 native conifer seedlings.
- **2026-05** — With EFM and Anew Climate, announced verification of the 891-acre Henry Creek project and issuance of 575,861 reforestation credits.
- **2026-03** — Carbon Streaming reported that all legal relationships with Mast had been terminated after the troubled reforestation streams.
- **2026-07** — Published further work on century-scale permanence and continued building a pipeline targeting a second biomass-burial project and eventual annual deployment of 150,000 tonnes by 2030.

## Links

- Website: https://www.mastreforest.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mast-reforest/
- Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/droneseed
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxD3X3bT-VAxV5ktNFL438A
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mast.reforest/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/droneseed

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Last updated: 2026-08-20