American Forests applauds Senate and House Agriculture committees for advancement of Farm Bill

May 3, 2024

American Forests applauds the leadership of the Senate and House Agriculture committees in advancing their section by section proposals for a new Farm Bill this week.

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.

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.

A giant task: fixing California’s reforestation pipeline

By Liane O’Neill | October 1, 2023

How innovative reforestation efforts in California are serving as a blueprint for other regions.

Reforestation can happen in the desert, too

June 1, 2023

A riparian forest planting in New Mexico reveals a striking transformation.

Forest Footnotes

March 7, 2022

Exciting developments, outside of American Forests, in the field of forestry.

An equine lifeline brings hope to a fire-scarred watershed

By Lee Poston | March 7, 2022

Two women and a band of horses bring watershed restoration to fruition after Colorado’s devastating 416 Fire.

American Forests Announces Reforest America Carbon Program

November 17, 2021

The Reforest America Carbon Program is a new opportunity for public, private, and tribal land managers to access carbon finance in order to plant and maintain climate-adapted carbon-rich forests that remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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.

Sharing is caring

By Lee Poston | October 4, 2021

Discover the potential impact of the innovative forest management approach of shared stewardship.

Family foundation working to boost nursery capacity

October 4, 2021

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

New legislation to help support private landowners, slowing climate change in the process

October 4, 2021

Learn about new legislation that will support private landowners as a way to help slow climate change.

Forest Footnotes

October 4, 2021

Exciting developments, outside of American Forests, in the field of forestry.

Climate-smart restoration

October 4, 2021

What is climate-smart restoration?

A true trailblazer for whitebark pine

October 4, 2021

How Diana Tomback has devoted her career to saving the whitebark pine and trailblazing a path for future research.

Landowners key to restoring the native forests of the Lower Rio Grande Valley

By Katherine Gustafson | June 6, 2021

American Forests is partnering with rancher Betty Perez and other private landowners to restore native thornforest habitat in South Texas.

Landowners key to restoring the native forests of the Lower Rio Grande Valley

By Katherine Gustafson | June 6, 2021

IN TEXAS’S LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Betty Perez leans over a tender catclaw acacia in the nursery on her family’s

Bringing Songbirds Back To Hawaii, One Forest at a Time

By Katherine Gustafson | February 21, 2021

How restoring the forests of Mauna Kea is essential to the continued survival of Hawaiian songbirds.

Bringing Songbirds Back To Hawaii, One Forest at a Time

By Katherine Gustafson | February 21, 2021

How restoring the forests of Mauna Kea is essential to the continued survival of Hawaiian songbirds.

Place-Based Partnerships: La Sal del Rey planting prepares rare Texas thornforests for an uncertain future

October 5, 2020

American Forests partners with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore thornforest in Texas.

Place-Based Partnerships: La Sal del Rey planting prepares rare Texas thornforests for an uncertain future

October 5, 2020

La Sal del Rey sits atop an estimated 4 million tons of salt and is seven times saltier than the

Earthkeepers: A Return to His Initial Passion

May 31, 2020

Learn about the experience that sparked Brian Kittler’s initial passion for forestry and the road that led him to American Forests.

Earthkeepers: A Return to His Initial Passion

May 31, 2020

Kittler recently traveled to northern Montana, just outside Glacier National Park, to meet the partners American Forests works with in

Save Our Summits

By Jill Schwartz | May 31, 2020

Venture to the Northern Rockies to learn what is being done to protect whitebark pines and all trees in high-elevation forests.

Save Our Summits

May 31, 2020

The Fight to Protect High Mountain Forests By Jill Schwartz All images by Morgan Heim and Jenny Nichols unless otherwise

Two Threatened Cats, 2,000 Miles Apart, with One Need: A Healthy Forest

By Katherine Gustafson | May 29, 2020

Discover how two cats from very different habitats share an unlikely connection through the Rio Grande River and their need for forest restoration.

Two Threatened Cats, 2,000 Miles Apart, with One Need: A Healthy Forest

May 29, 2020

By Katherine Gustafson Credit: Brad Latham DEEP IN THE RIO GRANDE NATIONAL FOREST in southwest Colorado, a Canada lynx steps

Project Showcase: Out of the Ashes

February 5, 2019

By Liz Harper ReLeaf has had a visible impact on areas like this hillside on the Hubert Eaton Scout Reservation

Donor Profile: Bruce and Carol Barge

February 5, 2019

Carol and Bruce Barge at their home in Napa Valley, Calif., accompanied by their dog, Carly. BRUCE AND CAROL BARGE

Forest Digest: October 7, 2018

October 7, 2018

First commercial flight partly fuelled by recycled waste lands in UK — The Guardian Using a new blend of fuel partially

Breaking Ground on Broken Ground in West Virginia

December 23, 2015

For the Mower Tract in West Virginia, American Forests teamed up with the U.S. Forest Service in Spring 2015 to