Your charitable contribution of $5.00 per tree helps support the Fund’s Carbon Sequestration program – an effort to plant native trees to address climate change, protect wildlife habitat and enhance America’s public recreation areas. Since 2000, The Conservation Fund has restored 30,000 acres and planted more than 9 million trees through its carbon sequestration program. Over the next 100 years, these new forests will capture an estimated 13.5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent from the atmosphere.

The Conservation Fund is working across the country to plant trees and address climate change. This fall, the Go Zero program will reforest areas in National Wildlife Refuges from New Jersey to California -- including Bogue Chitto NWR and Big Branch NWR in Louisiana, Rappahannock NWR in Virginia, Illinois River National Wildlife and Fish Refuges in Illinois, Edwin B. Forsythe NWR in New Jersey, Santee NWR in South Carolina, and San Joaquin River NWR in California.

For the past several years, The Conservation Fund’s reforestation efforts have been focused on the Lower Mississippi River Valley – an area that lost more than 20 million acres of bottomland hardwood forest over the last century. This area will remain a core Conservation Fund focus in the years to come. To date, significant carbon sequestration and reforestation efforts have occurred on public lands at:

• Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge, LA
• Obion Creek Wildlife Management Area, KY
• Old Sabine Bottom Wildlife Management Area, TX
• Sloughs Wildlife Management Area, KY
• Red River National Wildlife Refuge, LA

Go Zero trees are combined with existing and future carbon sequestration projects. Typically, the Fund completes three to four carbon sequestration projects each year. At the completion of each project, the Fund will contact our Go Zero donors (via email) and notify them that their trees have been planted.