Green Future’s reforestation program supports the rural American economy by working with domestic businesses to complete projects and by providing value-growing trees to farmers and other landowners. While we welcome large projects, you do not need to have hundreds or thousands of acres to participate in our program.
Improve Your Land: Tree Planting 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 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. Green Future’s reforestation program is meticulously planned and takes into account tree species selection, site preparation, landowner-convenient timing for land access, and any special wishes that the landowner may have during the entire process.
