NFF Blog

Welcome to the National Forest Foundation blog. Explore the various articles to learn more about our forests and places to play.

Photo by Jennifer Peterson

Wes Swaffar, NFF Senior Manager for Ecosystem Services, take a closer look at this iconic species - whitebark pine.

2015 was a big year for the NFF’s Trees for US program. With the help of our corporate partners, small business partners and...

NFF Director of California Program, Vance Russell, reflects on giant sequoias and introduces a new way scientists are trying to...

Ninety percent of American families pull out their wallets and buy their Christmas tree from a lot or a “cut your own”...

Rising tall from dark, murky waters, the bald cypress tree is a stately symbol of the swamp. Associated with the bayou, Spanish...

Wildfire is a necessary and important part of a natural landscape, but it is undeniable that some wildfires have harsh and...

Wes Swaffar, NFF Senior Manager for Ecosystem Services, visted a Trees for US planting site on the Custer Gallatin National...

The NFF is on the verge of planting 6 million trees on our National Forests. With the help of forward-thinking American...

Widely accepted as the world’s largest tree (by volume), the giant sequoia is one of the three redwood species still living...

From the Midwest, across Canada, north into Alaska and across the West through to Arizona and New Mexico, quaking aspens dot...

It’s easy to forget just how much everything in nature is connected. We may joke about the “circle of life” and the...