Project name: Nativstate
Project name: Mixed Broadleaf Forests of the Ozark Highlands
Project location: Arkansas Ozark Highlands
Registry:American Carbon Registry (ACR), IFM 2.0 Methodology
IDs:ACR 912
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SDGs:Right
The NativState Mixed Broadleaf Forests of the Ozark Highlands is a programmatic development approach (PDA) to aggregated Improved Forest Management. This method allows landowners with smaller tracts of land to combine under one project. With a shared focus on maintaining forest CO2e stocks through sustainable management, the project will provide significant climate benefits through carbon sequestration from native forests.
The Ozark Highlands is divided into 11 Level IV ecoregions, reflecting the diverse geology, topography, and vegetation. Across the region features range from spring-fed streams to caves, limestone glades to prairies. In some areas, farming and logging have greatly reduced the forests and woodlands, which boast a variety of natural trees and wildlife.
Today, much of the land in this area is primarily used for logging, livestock farming, woodland grazing, recreation, quarrying, and housing. Currently only about 4% of the Ozark Highlights Mixed Forests ecoregion is protected.
Project name: Bottomland Forests of the Mississippi Delta and Piedmont
Project location: Eastern & South-Central Arkansas
Registry: American Carbon Registry (ACR), IFM 2.0 Methodology
IDs: ACR 913
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SDGs: Right
The NativState Bottomland Forests of the Mississippi Delta and Piedmont carbon project takes a programmatic development approach (PDA) to Improved Forest Management. Landowners can join forces with others committed to maintaining forest CO2e stocks through sustainable management. This aggregate then contributes to climate conservation efforts through carbon sequestration of native forests.
This project focuses on the deciduous forested wetlands of the Mississippi Delta and Piedmont. The Bottomland Hardwoods in this area serve a critical role in the watershed by reducing the risk and severity of flooding to downstream communities. These river swamp wetlands also improve water quality by filtering and flushing nutrients, processing organic wastes, and reducing sediment before it reaches open water.
While bottomland forests once covered significant portions of the Southeastern United states, today, only about forty percent of the region still supports these unique ecosystems, making NativState’s conservation efforts here invaluable.
Project name: Bottomland Forests of the Mississippi Backswamps and Delta Mixed Forests
Project location: Mississippi Alluvial Plain
Registry: American Carbon Registry (ACR), IFM 2.1 Methodology
IDs: ACR 1015
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SDGs: Right
The NativState Bottomland Forests of the Mississippi Backswamps and Delta Mixed Forests project aggregates forestland ranging from the swampy wetlands of Arkansas and Mississippi, across the alluvial soils of the Mississippi delta and into the mixed forests of the rolling West Coastal Plain of Louisiana.
This project supports a diverse landscape that includes silver maple, oak, hickory, cypress, and pine and provides habitat for numerous species like bald eagles, herons, migratory waterfowl, alligators, and many other fish, amphibians, and mammals.
The biodiversity of these ecoregions relies on the health of its rivers and streams. However, clearing bottomland hardwood for agriculture and other activities has led to the loss of much of the region’s original wetlands. The native oak-hickory-pine forests of the coastal plains and the temperate broadleaf and mixed forests, primarily found along the Upper Mississippi River floodplain, face pressure from lumber and pulpwood production and livestock grazing.
The Mississippi Backswamps and Delta Mixed Forests project protects the native forests that are vital to this ecologically rich region, offers significant climate benefits through carbon sequestration, and provides economic benefits to landowners and their communities.