Carbon Mitigation

A Global Concern
Reports of accelerating climate change and its impact on the environment and our quality of life are becoming a part of our everyday concerns.  Globally, scientists predict an increase in extreme storms, extinction of animals, melting of our polar icecaps and severe droughts and floods.   Locally, it threatens our local water supply, the health and productivity of our forests and the safety and livability of our communities.  

A Local Solution
Cascade Land Conservancy (CLC) is helping address this problem by partnering with individuals and local businesses to mitigate their carbon footprint through urban forest restoration.  CLC’s Green City Partnerships are community-based stewardship projects that restore urban forests through removing invasive plants, replanting native shrubs and trees, and monitoring the areas.  

A Smart Approach
Cascade Land Conservancy is a national leader in urban forest restoration.  Recognizing that successful urban reforestation requires long term maintenance and monitoring, 20-year strategic plans are developed for individual cities.  The current state of city forests are accessed and categorizes acres into nine different value and threat levels.  These levels are placed into a traditional triage or “tree-iage” system where high value and low threat receives priority attention, while low value and high threat receives the least priority.

A Worthy Investment
CLC’s Carbon Mitigation Program allows individuals and local businesses to invest in the restoration of acres in five cities across the region.  The cost to mitigate your carbon is comprised of the base field costs, such as invasive removal, site preparation, plant and planting materials, irrigation, and other maintenance necessary to ensure plant establishment and survival.  

Frequently Asked Questions

To calculate your carbon footprint, we recommend using the Seattle Climate Now calculators on the Seattle Climate Partnership calculator.

For more information, please contact Ara Erickson at arae@cascadeland.org or 206 905 6923