On behalf of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the nonprofit Conservation Fund used donations from its Go Zero® program to restore 776 acres of marginal land within the boundary of the Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge located in Linn County in eastern Kansas. The newly restored native bottomland hardwood forest will be managed by the Service to ensure its long-term protection and stewardship. The carbon offsets that are generated from this project are retired and cannot be sold or banked for future offset purposes.

This project has been designed to:

• decrease the effects of climate change via carbon sequestration;
• restore Kansas’s bottomland hardwood forest ecosystem; and
• create long-term community benefits in the form of improved recreational lands under the management of the US Fish and Wildlife Service for hunting, fishing, wildlife photography, wildlife observation, environmental education and environmental interpretation.