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What is Prescribed Fire and Why is it Important for Forest Health?

Fire has always been part of the natural landscape, and many forests have adapted to and need fire to remain healthy.

How Cutting Down Trees Can Improve Forest Health

For a forest to be healthy and resilient, each tree needs enough nutrients, water, and sunlight to thrive. When trees grow too...

Watershed Resiliency in Appalachia

As climate change models predict more extreme seasonal flooding and drought events, supporting watershed resiliency in the...

Is There Such a Thing as Too Many Trees?

To many of us, dense forests seem healthy and natural. But to the trained eyes of a forester, these dense stands indicate that...

A Closer Look: Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration Explained

At its most fundamental level, low-tech, process-based restoration attempts to return a stream to its natural, undisturbed...

Funding Secured to Restore Resurrection Creek

During the gold-mining boom, Resurrection Creek was heavily mined using hydraulic and heavy equipment placer mining for over 40...

Snagtastic: Why Wildlife Need Dead Trees Too

Our reforestation program plants millions of trees each year following disturbances, but did you know that disturbances can...

What a Healthy Forest Looks Like: Hazardous Fuels Treatment Before and After from the Big Jack East Project

The Big Jack East Project is a 2,000-acre forest health and hazardous fuels reduction project located directly south of the...

The Bison Experiment: Restoring Native Prairie and Wildlife Habitats with Bison

An hour away from Chicago’s towering skyscrapers and Lake Shore Drive, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie takes life at a...

Whitebark Pine: Working to Restore a Threatened Species on the Sawtooth National Forest

Populations of whitebark pine have been declining for decades. Fire, insects, and a fungal disease called white pine blister...

Post-Fire Meadow Restoration on the Sierra National Forest that Will Have Downstream Effects

The National Forest Foundation and Sierra National Forest are partnering to implement two watershed restoration projects within...

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What Is Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration, and How Can It Help the Colorado River?

The National Forest Foundation has added two full-time watershed coordinators focused on restoration projects throughout the...

Coastal Salish Tribal Youth Enhance Historic Mountain Huckleberry Gathering Area

In the summer of 2022, a group of Stillaguamish and Samish tribal youth gathered in the Stillaguamish Valley within the Mt....