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Trees

How do trees survive the winter?

Learn more about some of the tools mother nature has equipped trees with to survive the cold conditions of winter.

Show Your Love of National Forests this Valentine’s Day

Rather than buying a loved one a dozen roses, why not plant a dozen trees? All it takes is one dollar to plant a tree on our National Forests. For each dollar donated to the National Forest Foundation’s tree-planting program, we plant one tree on our forests.

A New Year for Our Forests

In 2019, resolve to make a difference for our National Forests, and our planet, with these simple steps.

Tree Planting Impacts You. Here’s How.

At the NFF, we like to say that our campaign to plant 50 million trees on our National Forests benefits all Americans. But what do we really mean? Read this blog post for a few important benefits we all receive from replanting our forests.

Veterinary Specialty Center Takes the 10K Tree Challenge

The Veterinary Specialty Center is proud to be partnering with the National Forest Foundation (NFF) as a sponsor of the 10K Tree Challenge. As a result of this partnership, 10,000 trees will be planted this year in conjunction with the NFF’s effort to plant 50 million trees across our national forests by 2023.

Five Reasons to Give the Gift of Trees This Holiday Season

This holiday season, what is a gift that will bring your friends and family together while doing some good for our National Forests? Giving the gift of trees!

Trees for Our Future: Three Questions About Trees and Climate Change

Supporting reforestation is perhaps the most simple and direct action you can take to increase carbon storage and limit climate change. Working together with the U.S. Forest Service and our partners, the NFF is planting millions of trees every year on our forests. For just $1 per tree, you too can help restore our forests and sequester more carbon.

Longing for Longleaf: A Story of Landscape-Scale Restoration

Today, longleaf pine-dominated forests cover less than 5 million acres, which would easily fit into New Jersey. Of these remaining acres of this former signature tree of the American South, only about 12,000 highly fragmented acres are mature, “old growth” forests.

Gliding Through Appalachian National Forests

These nocturnal flying squirrels soar among the trees of high elevation forests, though they don’t actually fly. Instead, they glide by unfurling their furred-skin folds into a square and using their tail as a rudder.

Reforesting Canada Lynx Habitat

Wildlife everywhere needs room to roam and our National Forests provide rich and diverse landscapes across the U.S. The Canada lynx is just one example of the different kinds of unique wildlife that can be found across our forests.