Increase Your Property Value and Restore Your Forest
We work with landowners to restore your legacy mine land into a healthy, young forest while creating wildlife habitat for a multitude of game and non-game species. Our program covers 100% of the cost of reforesting previously mined areas and pays landowners a fee for each acre of land enrolled.
Now Enrolling Landowners in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia!
Before Reforestation
After Reforestation
Reforestation offers a unique opportunity to restore a great ecosystem and bring new opportunities to Appalachia. Many landowners are interested in the legacy of their lands; restoring forests can provide a generational benefit to the land and to your family.
Reforesting has many benefits, but it can be difficult to take on alone
Our team uses the Forest Reclamation Approach, a proven method based in scientific research and experience, to ensure that trees succeed, and your land’s new forest meets your management goals.
Our Process
We are enrolling 2,000 acres in our pilot for 2024. By bringing together experts from multiple industries, this program streamlines the process for landowners by providing technical assistance and navigating complicated programs and paperwork.
Landowners receive payment for participating in the program, with project partners taking full responsibility for managing and paying the reforestation contractors.
Certified foresters and wildlife biologists will create a tree prescription for your site, based on the ecology and your land use goals with mix of native trees.
Contractors remove invasive species and rip up the unhealthy and heavily compacted soils that result from the mine closure process. Professional and/or volunteer tree planters come and replant your property.
Project partners actively monitor your site for a minimum of 2 years. As necessary, site specific monitoring plans can be established for up to 10 years to ensure project success.
Carbon sequestered by newly planted trees is sold to pay for the reforestation costs. The development of a carbon program is included as part of the reforestation work.