Yep, it's about money all right

Baker City Herald - Online

Mike Gaudern, executive director of the Oregon Small Woodlands Association, delivered that message to members of the Baker County Private Woodlands Association during a swing through Eastern Oregon last week.

"Oregon has been picked as one of three pilot project states in the nation" where cap and trade carbon credit trading will be made available to woodland owners through the Chicago Climate Exchange program, which was formed in 2002 and began trading carbon credits in 2003.

"I don't care if you believe what Al Gore and others are saying about carbon emissions causing global warming or not. My interest is making you money," Gaudern said. "We grow trees that suck carbon out of the air, and people want to pay us money for it — a lot of money."
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Gaudern said he is stepping down from his position as OSWA executive director on Nov. 1 to run the new Woodland Carbons Co., which is owned by OSWA.

He said Woodland Carbons Co. will function as a pool for small woodland owners to sell carbon credits as a group through the Chicago Climate Exchange.

"I am staking the next three years of my life that we can make this thing work," Gaudern said.