Cultivating kuleana – shared responsibility – for Hawaiian landscapes and language with the Akaka Foundation for Tropical Forests

By Tori Jowers | May 28, 2024

The Akaka Foundation for Tropical Forests is bringing together culture and conservation to address the myriad issues that face Hawai’i’s treasured forest lands.

Yellowstone Superintendent Cam Sholly receives American Forestsʻ Forest Resilience Champion Award 

March 20, 2024

The Forest Resilience Champion Award commends Shollyʻs critical work conserving whitebark pine, a federally designated threatened species that has experienced rapid decline across its range in the western U.S. over the past several decades. 

Forest Service awards American Forests $12M to support resilient reforestation for underserved communities 

March 15, 2024

American Forests will collaborate with the Forest Service and numerous partners to make resilient reforestation more affordable and accessible for underserved landowners, including federally recognized tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. 

A new era of leadership

By Jad Daley | February 5, 2024

A word from our president and chief executive officer

Restoration science in action

By Liane O’Neill | February 5, 2024

Direct seeding technique opens up great possibilities for whitebark pine restoration on three national parks.

Rio Reforestation: Cultivating a future for Texas thornforests

By Liane O’Neill | February 5, 2024

Annual planting event provides opportunity for vast community involvement in local thornforest reforestation efforts.

Rebuilding forest resilience in a fire-ravaged landscape

December 20, 2023

South central Oregon is pioneering a strategy for bolstering forest resilience to wildfire and climate change.

Gisel Garza: Seed hunter

By Lee Poston | March 7, 2022

How one woman and a pilot program are helping address a nationwide seedling shortage.

What is reforestation and forest restoration?

October 6, 2021

There's much more to growing a healthy forest than just putting seedlings in the ground. Reforestation, forest restoration and natural regeneration are related but separate ways to regrow a forest.

Family foundation working to boost nursery capacity

October 4, 2021

Learn about the Paul and June Rossetti Foundation’s impactful support of nursery research.

Growing pains: The race to plant billions of trees

By Allison Guy | October 5, 2020

We need to plant billions of seedlings — soon — to bring our forests back to health. But with the nation’s tree nurseries facing labor, infrastructure and other shortages, where will those seedlings come from?

Growing pains: the race to plant billions of trees

October 5, 2020

We need to plant billions of seedlings — soon — to bring our forests back to health. But with the

Replanting Paradise

September 11, 2020

The endeavor to grow forests that can take on the future impacts of climate change

Replanting Paradise

September 11, 2020

The endeavor to grow forests that can take on the future impacts of climate change By Austin Rempel Wolfy Rougle,

Project Showcase: Reforesting the Sky Islands of New Mexico

October 11, 2019

Read about our efforts to restore forests surrounding Bonito Lake in the mountains of New Mexico.

Project Showcase: Reforesting the Sky Islands of New Mexico

October 11, 2019

By Austin Rempel Plantings targeted areas where the fire killed all the seed-bearing trees, and seedlings were planted in clumps

Reforest America

October 7, 2019

Learn how climate change is threatening our forests and how American Forests ambitiously plans to reforest those disturbed landscapes across the country.

Reforest America

October 7, 2019

By Jad Daley and Eric Sprague Credit: Michael Woestehoff. PICK UP A NEWSPAPER OR GO ONLINE, and you are likely

A Trillion Trees? Let’s Talk About It…

July 24, 2019

A Trillion Trees? Let’s Talk About It… A recently released study in the journal Science advocates for reforestation as the