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Welcome to The Climate Trust
Forests worldwide play a vital role in removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
Forest
offset projects are an appealing and abundant type of offset project,
particularly in the voluntary carbon markets, in part because of the
many other societal values forests provide, such as clean water and
wildlife habitat.
Projects:
Take the first step and come help us help the Earth. Starting in Florida
 Forests
worldwide play a vital role in removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Forest
offset projects are an appealing and abundant type of offset project,
particularly in the voluntary carbon markets, in part because of the
many other societal values forests provide, such as clean water and
wildlife habitat. However, forest projects present some unique
challenges for technical legitimacy, in particular the issues of
additionality, permanence, and leakage. We are focusing on
non-political projects that are absent all of the above challenges. We
plant trees.
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How You Can Help: 
For every $5.00 you give we plant a Slash Pine Sapling.
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Forests worldwide play a vital role in Life. Ours anyway.
We
are focused on re-forestation on newly acquired land or land with open
status. Some of this could be land that has had insect infection or
been damaged do to fires.
The
last reason we get involved with the State is if there is an incorrect
species integration. It is decided if the natural flora and fauna of
Florida would benefit. If so the land is reforested with your and our
help.
The average
Initial Establishment density is set at 650 Slash Pines per
acre. Through management harvesting episodes and natural attrition in
about 20 years there are about 300 trees per acre. In about 60 years
there are between 30 to 75 trees per acre. This high variable here is
due to several factors such as other foliage presence, topography, soil
construction and water availability.
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$5 for us who live earth |
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 Your $5 per Slash Pine Sapling contribution can help Florida's inhabitants: this includes people.
Your
help will aide in protection of habitat for Gopher Tortoise
restoration, red cockaded woodpecker population growth as well as the
endangered plant program. |
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The Trees We Are
Currently Planting
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It
is our goal to assist with the management of forested areas for forest
health, wood and/or fiber, water, recreation, aesthetics, wildlife
habitat and plant biodiversity by carefully donating the
growth and planting of Slash Pine Saplings under the care of the
State Of Florida which contains over 1,054,000 acres in 35 state
forests. 
Through a working knowledge of local forest land ecology and native plant
communities, combined we are able to identify forest health concerns
and develop specific management guidelines for perpetuating a sustainable forest
ecosystem. Guidelines are based on a forest prescription that addresses the land
objectives as well as ecological parameters such as forest types, soil types,
past harvest history, natural community types and successional trends. Planners
are required to identify and develop specific management guidelines for habitat
protection areas, including riparian buffers, critical habitats and those with
special needs, as outlined in the Florida Division of Forestry’s Silviculture
Best Management Practices (BMPs).
Practices such as prescribed forestry, tree/shrub preparation, tree/shrub
establishment, pest management and prescribed burning are used to obtain optimal
forest communities in Florida. For vegetation management, we recommend only high
quality and adapted species in the plant material establishment specifications
and native trees wherever possible. When planning for wildlife, we recommend
using tree species which best meet local wildlife needs and, when practical,
leave snags (i.e., dead standing trees) and cavity trees. When planning for
forest restoration, composition of species selected for planting or those
favored for natural regeneration need to be native to the site and create a
successional stage or state that can progress to the desired forest plant
community. The density and distribution of species need to be similar to
predominant species in reference stand or appropriate technical reference. To
restore diverse communities for increased habitat value, at least four
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Helping the Red Cockaded Woodpecker in Florida
 The
red-cockaded woodpecker is Florida's version of the spotted owl, a
highly specialized creature that relies on old growth forests for its
welfare. Red-cockaded woodpeckers live in mature forests of longleaf
and slash pine where the trees range in age from 60 to 120 years or
older. The birds excavate their nests in old living pines infected with
red heart disease: helping the forests in this process.
Your
funds of $5.00 or more help us help Florida take care of this highly
endangered bird habitat. As a highly specialized nester this animal
needs help. Your help can help it as your contribution ensures that
this highly specialized nesters needs are met and kept: we plant trees
and let the Red Cockaded Woodpecker and other creatures flourish. - Thanks for your Support
Woody Woodenhauffer
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