Restoring Ireland’s Natural Capital
Afforestation Project
Srunahella, County Westmeath, Ireland
Project Goals
Personal Accountability
Convert 6-hectares of agricultural grazing land into a native Irish forest to offset my family of four’s lifetime carbon emissions and leave this land in a perpetual state of healthy forestry thereby providing environmental services greater than our family’s environmental debt.
Land that was originally a forest
Land Purchased
6.2 hectare / 15.5 acres
Land Parcel WH3145
L5744
Srunahella, Castlepollard
County Westmeath
Ireland
Location: 53.68688° N, 7.27198° W
Afforestation Plan
Forest Types to be Planted
I will plant 15,000 trees in three forest types:
Forest Type 7: Diverse Broadleaf
Common Alder Alnus glutinosa
Italian Alder Alnus cordata
Southern Beech Nothofagus procera
Downy Birch Betula pubescens
Silver Birch Betula pendula
Cherry Wild Prunus avium
Spanish Chestnut Castanea sativa
Common Hornbeam Carpinus betulus
European Common Lime Tilia europaea
Large leaved Linden Tilia platyphyllos
Small-leaved Linden Tilia cordata
Norwegian Maple Acer platanoides
Red Oak Quercus rubra
Rowan Sorbus aucuparia
Sycamore Acer pseudoplatanus
Forest Type 11: Mixed High Forests
Western Red Cedar Thuja plicata
Lawson Cypress Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
Moneterey Capress Cupressus macrocarpa
Douglas Fir Pseudotsuga menziesii
Grand Fir Abies grandis
Western Hemlock Tsuga heterophylla
European Larch Larix decidua
Corsican Pine Pinus nigra, var. laricio
Lodgepole Pine Pinus contorta
Monterey Pine Pinus radiata
Scots Pine Pinus sylvestris
Coastal Redwood Sequoia sempervirens
Norway Spruce Picea abies
Serbian Spruce Picea omorika
Miyawaki Method Forest
Densely planted .25 acre / 0.1012 hectare of mixed native Irish trees