The Project Forest Siksika Nation Community Shelterbelt Program is designed to harness the power of shelterbelts as "a proven nature-based solution" to mitigate the impacts of climate change, sequester carbon and take meaningful steps towards equitably distributing trees and their associated ecosystem services to the people living on Siksika Nation. Shelterbelts will provide Siksika Nation with long-term environmental resilience to the effects of climate change, including mitigating extreme wind, trapping moisture, regulating temperatures, reducing the loss of topsoil, cleaning the air and water, creating habitat for wildlife, decreasing noise and increasing privacy from passing highway traffic and providing spaces for traditional land-use activities.