New seedlings planted by the NFF and our partners improve our air, water, wildlife habitat and recreation experiences.
Tree Planting in Our National Forests
The National Forest Foundation works with the U.S. Forest Service to support forest restoration on the National Forests where wildfire, insect or disease outbreaks, or storm events have caused mortality at a scale large enough to require artificial regeneration to restore the forest. Our goal is to restore the natural diversity of tree species that existed prior to the event. In so doing we are able to restore the full range of ecosystem services that healthy forests provide.
Today the Forest Service estimates that 2 million acres of National Forest are in need of restoration. Unfortunately, global climate change, drought, and exclusion of fire from these forests have combined to increase the need for restoration on the National Forests. The NFF is working with the Forest Service to identify the National Forests where the ecological need is the greatest and we are concentrating our attention there. Planting trees rebuilds healthy wildlife habitat, protects critical watersheds, enhances recreation experiences, and helps address global warming.
Some of the places we are planting trees today:
- San Bernardino National Forest, the Butler II burn.
- Plumas National Forest, the Moonlight fire.
- Huron-Manistee National Forest, Kirtland Warbler nesting habitat restoration.
- Ocala National Forest, longleaf pine restoration.
For every $1 you give to the National Forest Foundation's Tree for Me™ program, we will plant one tree on a National Forest.