Carbon Capture and Storage
The ability of a forest to capture and store carbon in a given area depends on many factors, including geographic location, temperature, humidity, and species dominance. The pine trees that dominate Georgia's forests are among the better trees at sequestering carbon.
There are many types of strategies used to grow, enhance, maintain and manage a forest's ability to sequester carbon. Our program is designed to execute one or more of these strategies as appropriate:
- Afforestation (establishing a forest on land that is previously not a forest, or has not been a forest for a long time)
- Reforestation (restocking of existing forests and woodlands which have been depleted)
- Forest preservation or avoided deforestation (land use change)
- Forest management (harvesting, thinning, fertilizing, etc.)