First and largest forest carbon origination pipeline program in the US

Created and managed by C2I, LLC, GreenTrees currently has a total of 30 carbon sequestration properties located in the Delta regions of Arkansas and Louisiana

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2009 GreenTrees Forest Carbon Pipeline Increases 40% Year-Over-Year

First and largest forest carbon origination pipeline program in the U.S.

Middleburg, VA GreenTrees, the first and largest forest carbon origination pipeline program in the U.S., has increased its land and carbon capacity by 40% in 2009. The average size of each enrolled property increased 250% year-over-year, highlighted by the conversion at one property of 1,100 contiguous crop acres in Louisiana into a 700,000-tree forest next to the Tensas Wildlife Refuge.

Created and managed by C2I, LLC, GreenTrees currently has a total of 30 carbon sequestration properties located in the Delta regions of Arkansas and Louisiana. They collectively will restore nearly 2 Million bottomland hardwood trees near the Mississippi River while using another 2 Million cottonwood trainer trees to benefit the hardwood growth. The cottonwoods and hardwoods can selectively become available from harvesting for wood biomass, pulp and/or timber markets while creating sustainable forests.

By converting acres into hardwood forests through lease commitments designed for anticipated carbon compliance protocols, landowners are restoring multiple conservation and environmental benefits for generations to come. Bottomland hardwood restoration in the Delta improves wetlands, expands wildlife habitats, controls erosion, reduces nitrate run-offs and sequesters carbon dioxide. The Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley is the nations largest watershed, covering approximately 25 million acres.

In May 2009, Duke Energy announced its early investment in GreenTrees in order to generate high-quality, verifiable carbon offsets that will help Duke reduce their emissions under expected federal compliance legislation. From the private capital C2I raised for these carbon rights, landowners can receive contract payments, potential carbon income, additional cottonwood harvest incomes along with other forest and conservation incomes possible from every acre planted.

"The GreenTrees pipeline model enables us to place private capital on private lands year in and year out while delivering new ecosystem assets produced from afforestation, like carbon. Landowners are provided new and multiple sources of income and property value from their new forest. We believe the private landowner is the most important participant in enabling scale in forest carbon pipelines, conservation, and landscape restoration. stated Chandler Van Voorhis, co-founder of C2I, LLC.

For more information about GreenTrees, contact Page Gravely, Senior Director for GreenTrees at 540-687-8950 or visit www.green-trees.com.

Additional Information

Web Site: http://www.green-trees.com

Category: Forestry>Forest & Environment

Region: Virginia

Ad Running: 10/11/2009-11/8/2011

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