Middle Of Nowhere, Louisiana, USA; (Otherwise Known As the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge)

Tree planting at the 1,100-acre Tensas River Valley reforestation project in Louisiana officially begins this week. The biologists tell us Louisiana is one of the best places in the world to plant trees if you want to capture and sequester carbon dioxide, so we've been excited about this project for a long time.

Tomorrow I'm flying out of Baltimore direct to Jackson, Mississippi, where I will rent a pickup truck and drive two hours west to the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge. Details of the 1,100-acre reforestation project are on our website. Details about the refuge itself can be found here.

The snazziest information about the project, though, can be found on Volkswagen's website. Much of the funding for the project is coming through our partnership with the automaker. VW is offsetting the first year of driving for every car it sold between Sept. 1, 2007 and Jan. 2nd, 2008-- just under 80,000 cars.

I'll be reporting more on the project when I get back next week. Until then, here's to not getting lost in central Louisiana.