PROJECT ACR 783 – THE S&J TAYLOR FOREST CARBON PROJECT, ARKANSAS

Project ACR 783 is a verified and already-issuing project and represents approximately 18,000 acres of sustainably managed forestland across Southcentral Arkansas. This project is expected to generate carbon offsets over the next twenty years. Green Star Royalties owns a 20% royalty on this project, which issued and sold its first carbon offsets in March 2024 with a second carbon offset issuance expected later in 2025.

The S&J Taylor Forest Carbon Project aims to conserve Saline River bottoms riparian hardwoods and pines in Arkansas. Project ACR 783 aims to maintain forest CO₂e stocks by certified and sustainable management while accomplishing significant carbon sequestration and providing important co-benefits to the Ouachita watershed, local communities, and improved water resources to downstream communities throughout the Gulf Coastal Plain Region. Large tracts of riparian bottomland hardwoods that are part of this project act as essential buffers from runoff to the river and to the habitat of the endemic freshwater Arkansas fatmucket mussels.

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PROJECT ACR 912 – MIXED BROADLEAF FORESTS OF THE OZARK HIGHLANDS

Project ACR 912 represents approximately 9,100 acres of sustainably managed forestland across the Arkansas Ozark Highlands. Green Star Royalties owns a 7% royalty on this project, which is expected to have its first carbon offset issuance later in 2025.

Project ACR 912 uses a programmatic development approach to IFM, that allows landowners with smaller tracts of land to combine under one project. Through sustainable forest management, the project will provide significant climate benefits through carbon sequestration from native forests. The Ozark Highlands contain diverse geology, topography, and vegetation, with regional features including spring-fed streams, caves, limestone glades and prairies. Much of the land in this area is primarily used for logging, livestock farming, woodland grazing, recreation, quarrying, and housing, with only 4% of the Ozark Highlights Mixed Forests ecoregion currently protected.

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PROJECT ACR 913 – BOTTOMLAND FORESTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA AND PIEDMONT

Project ACR 913 represents approximately 7,800 acres of sustainably managed forestland across Eastern and Southcentral Arkansas. Green Star Royalties owns a 3% royalty on this project, which is expected to have its first carbon offset issuance later in 2025.

Like ACR 912, Project ACR 913 enables smaller landowners to join forces with others committed to maintaining forest CO₂e stocks through sustainable management, which contributes to climate conservation efforts through carbon sequestration of native forests. This project focuses on the deciduous forested wetlands of the Mississippi Delta and Piedmont, where forests in this area serve a critical role in reducing the risk and severity of flooding to downstream communities. While bottomland forests once covered significant portions of the Southeastern United States, today, only about 40% of the region still supports these unique ecosystems, highlighting the importance of NativState’s conservation efforts in this area.

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UPCOMING ACR PROJECTS

As part of the royalty agreement, NativState will continue to enroll forest landowners across the southern United States into future ACR projects that will be subject to 10% royalties, until total acreage under the Royalties reaches 60,000 acres, excluding Project ACR 783. These future IFM projects are expected to be located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri.

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