Landowners and farmers are especially well-suited to help the world solve the looming climate crisis, since they can reduce emissions by adjusting their practices to be more environmentally sustainable as well as offsetting their carbon emissions through reforestation efforts on their own land. Carbon Offset for landowners can be something that achieves an environmental benefit while also adding significant value to marginal land by harboring wildlife, preventing erosion and runoff, and growing timber.

Green Future recommends that, in addition to starting a shift toward eco-friendly farming and land management practices, landowners should consider conducting a reforestation project on their land. The conversion of marginal farmland, out-of-service pasturelands, reclaimed mines, or otherwise barren ground to lush and natural forests will benefit wildlife and the natural ecosystem on the land, as well as pulling carbon out of the atmosphere. Please visit our page for Landowners & Farmers for more information. If you cannot support a reforestation project on your own land at this time, please visit our page on Carbon Offset for Business to allow Green Future to provide you with an offset solution for your current emissions. 

Green Future’s reforestation projects provide carbon offset for businesses through natural, proven, and sustainable methods. There are no gimmicks or risky technologies involved, and you do not need a degree in chemical engineering to understand our business; if you understand the concept of a tree, then you understand our offering.  In addition, Green Future supports the rural American economy by working with domestic businesses to complete projects and by providing value-growing trees to farmers and other landowners. Even though your business will benefit from your carbon offset, it would be a good and honorable thing to do even if this was not the case. 

Improve Your Land: Carbon Offset for Landowners and Farmers

Reforestation (replacing cut trees) and afforestation (adding new stands of trees) add timber value to your land. With proper planning and forest management, tree planting can turn marginal farmland into a paradise for wildlife and a long-term investment for the landowner. Aside from the benefit to the environment gained through carbon sequestration (the capture of CO2 from the atmosphere and storage in wood and other components of forest biomass), planting trees can provide the following benefits:

1) Reduce Erosion and Agricultural Runoff – Preserve Value

Planting trees on steep slopes can prevent an immense amount of erosion. This protects the land that you hold dearly, while also improving water quality. When planted between fields or pastures and the drainage basin, a strip of trees and undergrowth known as a “filter strip” can capture and hold a large amount of any agricultural runoff such as topsoil, manure, nitrogenous fertilizers, chemicals, and more. This protects the local ecosystem and keeps nutrients on your land. 

2) Improve Wildlife Habitat – Add Value Today

Allowing even small sections of the most marginal land to return to natural forest provides an excellent environment for natural wildlife. Aside from the moral benefit gained by being a good steward of the environment, this can add serious value to land. Leases of usage rights to those who love the great outdoors can be a large and untapped revenue stream for landowners and farmers. There are many individuals who love the great outdoors and lack access to quality land, and they are willing to pay a premium for exclusive access to your land if there is sufficient natural habitat for wildlife.

3) Grow Healthy Stands of Timber – Add Long-Term Value

Even long-term reforestation projects for carbon capture do add timber value for the landowner. After a number of years (the time depends on growing conditions and tree species), selective harvesting of trees can be conducted when done in a way that allows the carbon to remain stored in the wood and biomass. In simple terms, carbon remains captured as long as forest products from harvest are not burned. For example, if one mature oak tree is harvested and the leaf litter and small branches are left in the forest to become litter, while flooring is made out of the oak trunk, then the carbon that was captured in the wood products and biomass on the forest floor remain captured. It is only if one would harvest trees and burn them that much of the captured carbon would be released. 

If you are interested in carbon offset for landowners and getting trees planted on your land, please check out Our Process for details, then submit your information and a representative will be in touch. 

Planting trees on your land is something that will have a multi-generational positive impact on your local ecosystem, the global environment, the value of your land, and your annual bottom line. 

Global Reforestation Potential: Carbon Offset for Landowners