Featured Projects
Forests we’re preserving, parcel by parcel and metro by metro.
Where we work and what we’re protecting
Every project on this page represents land that would otherwise be lost. Through verified carbon credit-financed preservation, we’re keeping forests standing in places where development pressure is real, working with landowners who chose conservation over conversion. Some of these projects have already issued credits, others are in active development. Each one represents a specific American forest, in a specific community, that won’t be paved over.
Lee and Betty Sharp Orchard and Woods Preserve
Vancleave, Jackson County, Mississippi | City Forest Credits 40-Year Tree Preservation | Active, issuing credits
This 34-acre family forest sits at the edge of one of coastal Mississippi’s most rapidly developing corridors. The property has been stewarded by the same family for generations. More than fifty years ago it functioned as a pecan and mixed-fruit orchard, and traces of that legacy still bear fruit alongside the oak, longleaf pine, and sweetgum woodland that has regenerated across the site. Approximately five miles from the Biloxi beachfront, the forest provides watershed protection across two of the Gulf Coast’s largest river systems and buffers a sensitive coastal ecosystem from sedimentation, stormwater runoff, and the intensifying heat that defines Mississippi summers.
Rather than sell to one of the residential developers operating in the area, the landowners chose to partner with Three Oaks Carbon to conserve the property through carbon finance. The 40-year preservation commitment keeps the forest standing, preserves habitat for the endangered Mississippi Sandhill Crane, longleaf pine, and Gulf sturgeon, and continues delivering measurable environmental services to neighboring communities. The project’s stored carbon alone is valued at approximately $568,960, with co-benefits compounding annually through air quality improvement, stormwater retention, and urban cooling.
So what might have happened to this land without protection?
This visual illustrates the lower end of what could have been built here without protection. Under its existing A-1 and A-2 zoning, the property could easily have been cleared and subdivided for housing by right, with no rezoning or special approvals required. An independent feasibility study projected the site could support roughly 31 to 68 single-family lots, and as many as 270 homes with a feasible rezoning to R-4.
Developers expressed interest in purchasing the property on more than one occasion, demonstrating the market demand that establishes the project’s additionality. The owners chose preservation instead, safeguarding a valuable piece of Mississippi forest in a rapidly urbanizing stretch of the Gulf Coast.
Leroy Sharp Preserve
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana | City Forest Credits 40-Year Tree Preservation | Active, In Development
This 39-acre loblolly pine forest sits in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, about 10 miles north of Covington. The property has been held by the same family for decades, and its dense woods rise just behind a local chapel in an area defined by ranches, semi-rural homesteads, and the steady northward growth of greater New Orleans. As development continues to push outward from Covington and the Lake Pontchartrain shoreline, intact pine stands like this one are becoming increasingly scarce in the parish.
Rather than allow the property to be cleared for residential or commercial conversion, the landowner chose to partner with Three Oaks Carbon to preserve the forest through carbon finance. The 40-year preservation commitment keeps the loblolly stand standing, maintains forest cover and watershed continuity for the surrounding community, and contributes to the regional ecological functions that healthy pine forests deliver across south Louisiana: carbon storage, stormwater retention, wildlife habitat, and air quality buffering for the communities settling around them.
Atlanta Metro Forest Preservation Initiative
Greater Atlanta, Georgia | ACR Active Conservation and Sustainable Management | Active, In Development
Our flagship ACR ACSM project is being assembled across the greater Atlanta metropolitan area, one of the fastest-developing regions in the southeastern United States. The Atlanta initiative will aggregate multiple privately-held forest properties into a single multi-property preservation project, generating verified credits across a 40-year crediting period. Unlike our single-property CFC projects, the ACR ACSM portfolio approach lets us cover a broader landscape: multiple landowners, multiple parcels, one coordinated conservation outcome.
Houston Metro Forest Preservation Initiative
Greater Houston, Texas | ACR Active Conservation and Sustainable Management | Active, In Development
The Houston Metro initiative is being assembled across the greater Houston metropolitan area, one of the largest and fastest-growing regions in the southern United States. Greater Houston combines significant development pressure with an unusually diverse forest landscape: coastal prairie, pine flatwoods, hardwood bottomlands, and bayou-adjacent woodland, all facing increasing conversion pressure from residential and commercial expansion. The Houston initiative will aggregate multiple privately-held forest properties into a single ACR ACSM project, generating verified credits across a 40-year crediting period.
Have a forest worth protecting?
We work with landowners across the US evaluating whether their property qualifies, and with buyers sourcing verified credits from real American forests. If a project on this page resonates with your work, get in touch.