Oct 02, 2009. /Lesprom Network/. Sierra Pacific Industries has struck a deal with Equator LLC, a natural resources asset management firm, that is the nation's "single largest pre-compliance forest carbon transaction to date," according to a release from Sierra Pacific, California’s largest private landowner – Sierra Pacific Industries, and Equator, LLC, a natural resources asset management firm, announced today that they have entered into the nation’s single largest pre-compliance forest carbon transaction to date, Random Lengths reported. The two firms will develop a 60,000-acre project to sequester 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide over the next five years. "This project demonstrates the utility of California's new forestry protocol, and recognizes the value of working forests in meeting the state's climate change goals and ecosystem sustainability," said Mark Emmerson, Sierra's CFO Sierra Pacific Industries is a family owned and operated forest products company