Chestnut Sustainable Restoration Project

The United States is home to over 700 million acres of forestland; this is nearly 7.5% of the world’s forests, providing clean water, recreation, and other life sustaining resources to Americans. The importance of American forests to the global ecosystem and climate is central to the work of Chestnut Carbon, LLC, a US-based company that seeks to conserve and restore functional forestland throughout the United States for the primary purpose of increasing carbon sequestration. Using the Land Use and Forest Activities requirements and A/R methodology, Chestnut Carbon is implementing an afforestation project, Chestnut Sustainable Restoration Project, on multiple parcels of land in the United States, starting in the Southeast. The purpose of the project is to increase carbon stocks and retain GHG, and by doing so meet the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): 3 – Good Health and Well Being, 6 – Clean Water & Sanitation, 8 – Decent Work & Economic Growth, 11 – Sustainable Cities & Communities, 13 – Climate Action, 15 – Life on Land, and 17 – Partnership for the Goals. Chestnut Carbon will be acquiring degraded, unproductive pasture and agriculture lands in order to plant trees in an effort to restore diverse, native forests. Local resources, including labor, seedlings and expertise are used for afforestation. The technologies and measures employed by the project are organized into eleven thematic groups of specific activities: Sustainable Tree Planting, Tree Maintenance, Ecological Resilience, Growing Markets, Public Education, Environmental Protection, Public Use, Special Use, Local Economy, Workers Safety, Highest and Best Use.