Go Zero® - Recent Forest Restoration Projects

Since 2000, support from our Go Zero® donors has enabled the Fund to restore nearly 20,000 acres of forestlands and plant more than six million trees through its carbon sequestration programs. Over the next 100 years, these growing forests will capture an estimated eight million tons of carbon dioxide, one of the most potent greenhouse gasses.

Throughout this past year, the Fund, in partnership with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has planted nearly 60,000 trees in national wildlife refuges and wildlife management areas in Virginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California. These new forests will sequester nearly 80,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over the next 100 years. As they grow, the trees will do more than just clean our air; they will help filter the water we drink, restore critical wildlife habitat and enhance public recreation areas for this generation and the next.

And we’re still going. Last fall fall, 100,000 trees were planted within the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas, restoring habitat for the endangered Ocelot. In January, the restoration of 158 acres of forestland was announced at the Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in East Texas. Over their lifetime, the newly planted bald cypress, oak and pecan trees at Trinity will trap more than 63,000 tons of carbon dioxide.

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