Eligibility:

Landowners are eligible for GreenTrees if:

1. You are familiar enough about GreenTrees to pursue enrollment.
Please speak to your local GreenTrees enrollment contact (listed below) so he can explain all of the details of our program. We want to make sure you completely understand and agree with the program’s opportunities, tree planting requirements and contractual commitments.

2. You hold title to acres within the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley that are currently “clear” – pastures, marginal farmland, or cultivated acres.
Properties with existing trees or that have been deforested since 1990 are not eligible.

3. The soil types on these “clear” acres are suitable for the establishment and growth of the eastern cottonwood tree species (soil index of 85 or higher).
We need to find out the predominant soils on the property. Once we know that, we can determine if the soils are suitable for cottonwood growth and, therefore, program enrollment. With the landowner’s permission, your GreenTrees enrollment contact will call the District Conservationist (NRCS office) and/or County Forester in the county in which your property is located to ask for a soils map or any other information that can provide us your soil types.

4. You wish to enroll at least 50 contiguous acres and they pass a “physical inspection”.
We can only consider property whose size is at least 50 qualified acres. If you have suitable soil types, the last step to verify your eligibility for enrollment will be for your GreenTrees representative to schedule an appointment with you to come visit your property along with members of our Forestry Operations Team. Together, we will physically inspect the surface, contours, and drainage, the location of the soil types and understand any cropping and treatment histories. At that point, we can collectively decide if the property is suitable for enrollment.

Enrollment:

GreenTrees is a private forest restoration program and is now available to eligible landowners as described above. Please contact us directly if interested in signing up.

If a landowner wants to enroll in GreenTrees, we will provide them a copy of our lease agreement to review. After enrolling, the landowner can use GreenTrees personnel to assist him/her, at no cost, to:

1. Hire and/or train a local, qualified tree planter for the proper site preparation, tree-planting and silvicultural treatment practices necessary for the successful and healthy establishment of the inter-planting.

2. Provide on-the-ground oversight during the Fall site preparation work and Winter tree planting.

3. Provide coordination and logistical assistance in the ordering and delivery of the cottonwood cuttings for the planting.

4. Provide on-the-ground monitoring of the tree stand health during the first and second growing season.

5. Provide annual “timber tours” and 5 year forest audits to verify the health and carbon sequestration of the tree stand.

6. Coordinate the inter-planting regime plans into the NRCS conservation plan and any other planning and establishment requirements, if applicable, with the USDA, NGO or other organizations the landowner is collaborating with on the same specific acres.

CRP Eligibility and Enrollment:
If a landowner plans and qualifies to enroll acres into his/her state’s Conservation Reserve Program, the landowner may be able to enroll the same acres simultaneously both into CRP and GreenTrees, thus receiving CRP payments, incentives and annual rental payments in addition to and independent of payments from GreenTrees. Please speak with your state GreenTrees enrollment contact for more details.

GreenTrees Enrollment Contacts:
Arkansas: Andy Johnson, 870.403.3885, andy@green-trees.com

Mississippi: Blaine Lanier, 662.560.7362, blaine@green-trees.com

Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, and Tennessee: Page Gravely, 540.687.8950, page@green-trees.com