R&A Investment Forestry is a highly experienced and knowledgeable forestry consulting group focusing on institutional investments in forestland with a particular emphasis on the interface between financial investors and Conservation. R&A is without equal in its understanding of the complexities and risks of forest investment and in its insight into the interplay between financial investors, conservation interests, and regulators.

R&A's expertise derives from Jim Rinehart, its President. During twenty-five years of professional involvement in the industry, Mr. Rinehart has developed working relationships with colleagues at all levels and in all aspects of forestland investing. For the past fifteen years R&A has consulted in California and other regions on investment analysis, governance, regulation, and policy.

R&A's unique contribution to forestland investment is a keen understanding of how forest investment and conservation can cooperate to increase the efficiency of both investment and conservation capital.