Buy Credits

Credit Buying Process

Upon receiving a Credit Inquiry, RestorEcology will first issue a quote for the credits via email, with pricing and availability. Following confirmation from the Client that they would like to purchase the credits, RestorEcology issues an invoice. 

Once payment is received (usually by check), we issue a Credit Transfer Certificate that functions as the receipt for the credit sale and for the regulatory agency requiring the credits. RestorEcology will also provide a copy of the official credit ledger documenting the purchase for the state of North Carolina.

FAQs

For Landowners

The project restores a portion of your property to a wooded habitat that provides wildlife habitat and water quality improvements in ditches and streams on your property.

Native trees (oaks, poplar, sycamore, cypress, persimmon, etc.) are planted to give the woods a jumpstart, and invasive species are treated with herbicides.

Your property has farmed areas along streams that could be restored to a natural habitat.

This is a real estate transaction, with fair-market and negotiated compensation to establish a conservation easement on a portion of your property along the streams/ditches.

Yes, RestorEcology can use a partnering approach with a landowner to share project revenues. Other options could include purchasing the land outright, installment payments, or full payment at project approval.

The NC Division of Water Resources (DWR) oversees the development of the project.

RestorEcology bears the cost of project development, including survey, permitting, planting, monitoring, maintenance, and stewardship.

Developers in the watershed are required to offset the negative impacts to water quality created by development. They would pay RestorEcology to be credited a piece of the project.

No ownership of the project or land itself transfers to the developer – just the water quality improvement (in nitrogen pounds) created by the project.

After the trees are monitored for five years and are growing successfully, RestorEcology funds an endowment for a long-term steward, typically a land trust, to hold the conservation easement and ensure it remains intact in perpetuity.

You would retain the right to walk/hunt/fish in the easement area, but cannot build trails and structures.