Duke Energy Invests in GreenTrees' Carbon Offsets

GreenTrees® is a privately managed forest restoration and carbon sequestration program created for landowners within the seven states of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. GreenTrees was created and is managed by C2I, LLC of Virginia.

GreenTrees is designed to provide landowners the highest combination of financial and conservation value possible from bottomland hardwood afforestation. Landowner enrollment in GreenTrees creates regional scale to produce multiple conservation, wildlife, and ecosystem benefits. By using a specific inter-planting of 302 cottonwoods plus 302 mixed hardwoods per acre, GreenTrees directly addresses the growing demands for verifiable forestry carbon offsets and renewable biomass feedstock supplies. This demand provides C2I the working capital to provide landowners their enrollment incentives and use professional forestry and ecosystem resources to properly plant and monitor these valuable forests.

In exchange for the landowners' commitment to enable carbon sequestration on these acres, GreenTrees creates a variety of upfront, intermediate and long-term income opportunities. For example, landowners can enroll the same qualified acres into GreenTrees, the USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program, and other forestry programs, therefore receiving enrollment incentive payments, tree-planting assistance, annual payments, recreational income, and a variety of timber incomes.

GreenTrees uses carbon origination and biomass to tip the economic scales in favor of long-term ecosystem restoration, thus creating a new and valuable forest from participating landowners while directly providing the LMAV region, and generations to come, a new economic and environmental resource.

GreenTrees – Making Acres Grow.

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GreenTrees receives Southern Growth Policies Board 2009 Innovator Award:

MS Governor Haley Barbour presents award to B. Chandler Van Voorhis, Managing Partner Green-Trees