The planting density for this project will average 200-300 seedlings per acre and the seedlings to be planted include Redwood, Douglas-Fir, Willow and Big-Leaf Maple in riparian areas.  

A number of the planting sites were properties burnt in the Walbridge Fire in the Healdsburg area and require replanting to re-establish a forest. Others are properties on which planting will re-establish conifer as a component of hardwood-dominated stands that are the result of historical over cutting. Forest stewardship on these planting sites will be guided by a non-industrial forest management plan or something similar, which is rigorously examined by numerous state agencies, including the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Water Quality Control Board, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the California Geological Survey. 

Found at tree-line altitudes in the Andes, this project will help create and feed the headwaters of major sources of water for everything downstream including the Amazon rainforests and wetlands. It is also a habitat for more than 20 IUCN-listed Species of Conservation Concern. They prevent severe erosion from melting glaciers above them. They contribute to climate resiliency and mitigation.

This project will restore vital community natural resources and help communities to sustainably manage them going forward. Because this project is community-based and owned, our projects contribute to local community economies by creating local micro-businesses focused on growing, planting, and managing sustainably native forests.

The project is located in a very important area to conserve water in the São Paulo state. This place is named as Serra da Mantiqueira. The municipalities that the project will be implanted are: In São Paulo state: Águas de Lindóia, Lindóia, Serra Negra and Socorro In Minas Gerais state: Bom Repouso, Bueno Brandão, Monte Sião, Munhoz, Senador Amaral.

The participative construction of this project has as goal to foment the restoration chain with the local partnership as rural owners and seeds' collectors and other organizations that has this goal of created more forests to increase the quality of life. Besides that, the restoration of the priorities areas of water conservation will be a direct positive impact on all populations that live in the region and economy.

This project focuses on eight micro-watersheds including Foulon-Bois de Lance, Bahon, Trois Palmistes, Selon, Milot, Capotille, Savanne Longue, and Perches.

This particular planting project has a strategy of overlaying planting activities with resilience-building environmental techniques at the micro-watershed landscape level, primarily in the highlands. The strategy also maximizes tree survival rate by planting in agroforestry systems with built-in incentives for farmers to protect the newly transplanted trees.

The Carpathia project does not just replant clear-cuts of the past with the most common species, but recreates the natural forest composition, already adapted to possible future climate change. Carpathia has so far used eleven different tree species, amongst them reintroduced the European Yew to the southern Fagaras Mountains. Further ecological benefits are the restoration of the forest floor on former tractor tracks, where erosion after every snowmelt or after every heavy summer rain has caused not only the loss of topsoil, but also the input of mud into the river systems with negative consequences for the aquatic fauna. FCC owns all lands on which we replant and guarantees the protection of forests in perpetuity on these properties.