americanforests.org – 23-12-2019
American Forests’ landscape-scale restoration work is driven by one unifying goal: to restore North America’s native forest landscapes to full health and long-term resilience.

Our American ReLeaf program is taking action to heal our forests by replanting forests on damaged lands and leading other forest restoration actions to create resilient, healthy forests for our future.
Across North America, millions of acres of native forests have been lost or degraded by disasters like wildfires, pests, and disease, as well as human actions like mining, development, and widespread clearing for unsustainable practices. Forest restoration can bring our native forests back — and all the natural benefits they provide society — while also creating green jobs at the same time.
using SCIENCE IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Bringing a forest back to health requires more than just planting trees. Our work includes actions like collecting seeds from the strongest “mother trees” to grow whitebark pine seedlings that are resistant to disease, using prescribed fire to promote oak forests, and partnering with scientists to plan restoration for the tree species and climate conditions that are expected in the future.
Our American ReLeaf team brings deep expertise in the science and practice of forest restoration to power our unique change model for landscape-scale restoration. Working with the U.S. Forest Service, other government agencies and a variety of on-the-ground partners, we combine skills and resources to accomplish more for our forests than any organization could do alone.