Program Summary PowerTree Carbon Company LLC, a voluntary consortium of 25 leading U.S. electric power companies or their affiliates, was launched in April 2004 as an initiative to address the climate change issue, restore critical wildlife habitat, improve water quality and reduce flooding – all through planting trees. PowerTree Carbon Company is a multi-million dollar company established to undertake seven bottomland hardwood reforestation projects in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. As these trees grow, they will capture about 1.4 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and provide critical habitat to threatened and endangered species. As the national dialogue on climate change and global warming increases, these power companies continue to gain valuable knowledge on how to help manage greenhouse gases through trees, or carbon sinks as they are known. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on the global level, 1 – 1.5 billion tons of carbon (equal to about 12-15 percent of total global carbon emissions) per year on average over the next half century could be managed through forestry activities. The focus of PowerTree Carbon Company’s forest restoration is in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (LMAV), perhaps this country’s most important watershed. Decades of flood control measures and conversion from forest to marginal farmland have resulted in an area today with less than 20 percent of its original 22 million acres of bottomland hardwoods. No other watershed system in North America has suffered such a tremendous reduction in area. Much of the remaining forested area is highly fragmented with extremely poor water quality. PowerTree Carbon Company’s work in the LMAV will help return almost 4 thousand acres of thriving forested ecosystems. Improvement in wildlife habitat will undoubtedly benefit a variety of species, including migratory birds and waterfowl, and threatened and endangered species, including the Louisiana black bear. Together the member companies have invested $3 million to plant 1.2 million trees in these bottomland, hardwood restoration projects. Project developers, projects, locations and sizes are: The Conservation Fund: Spanish Lake Project, near Alexandria and Natchitoches, Louisiana., 909 acres Old South Woodlands LLC: Walsh Lake Project, near Larto, Louisiana, 500 acres Central Arkansas Resources Conservation and Development Council: White River Project, near Newport, Arkansas, 1,100 acres The Nature Conservancy: Bayou Pierre Project, near Natchitoches, Louisiana., 500 acres The Conservation Fund: Bayou Pierre II Project, near Natchitoches, Louisiana, 200 acres Ducks Unlimited: Bayou Bartholomew Project, near Mitchellville, Arkansas, 400 acres The Carbon Fund: Southfresh Farms Project, near Belzoni, Mississippi, 200 acres Supporting organizations include: Black Bear Conservation Committee Environmental Synergy, Inc. Winrock International

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