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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.

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.

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.

Tree Planting in East Texas Black Bear Habitat

Black bears can survive in many habitat types, from low deserts to mountainous forests, while Louisiana black bears thrive in hardwood forests, bottomland, and other wetland habitats.

Our Forests, Their Home: Replanting for Wildlife

Within our forests, you can find more than 3,000 species of fish and wildlife, including more than 400 federally listed threatened and endangered species.

Five Burning Questions About Tree Planting and Wildfire

Wildfire and its impacts to our forests can be hard to understand. Here are five common questions that explain how tree planting can help our forests recover from wildfire.