A life-saving infrastructure: Why trees are critical to our health 

By Nicole Greenfield | April 22, 2025

Trees can lower blood pressure, boost immune function, and decrease the risk of heart disease. Their immense health benefits can make trees life-saving infrastructure. This is why it is so important to ensure that all communities have access to trees and the benefits they provide.

American Forests Announces American Heart Association as Newest Member of Tree Equity Alliance  

March 10, 2025

American Forests enters a strategic alliance with the American Heart Association to raise awareness of the connection between tree cover and cardiovascular health. 

American Forests expands Tree Equity Score Analyzer to Houston with help from Google.org

December 9, 2024

Volunteers helped plant 50 trees at Shadydale Elementary, an area with a low Tree Equity Score, which will help improve the area’s tree canopy in the future.

Tree Equity Score Analyzer takes root in Toronto

By Julia Twichell | July 25, 2024

Tree Equity Score Analyzer (TESA) Toronto is the first urban forestry tool of its kind launched for a city outside the United States.

Comeback of rare Kirtland’s warbler depends on unique reforestation strategy

By Cameron Walker | June 26, 2024

Managing jack pine forests helps this once-endangered bird thrive

American Forests is awarded $10.6M from National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to restore Caldor Fire-affected watersheds

June 24, 2024

The Reforestation and Restoration of Caldor-Fire Affected Watersheds project will restore thousands of acres in the Caldor Fire-affected South Fork American and Cosumnes River watersheds; this effort will be led by American Forests, American Rivers, and the Colfax Todd's Valley Consolidated Tribe, in collaboration with the Eldorado National Forest and in coordination with regional partners.

National Champion Tree Program finds new home

January 18, 2024

The National Champion Tree Program started 83 years ago at American Forests to discover the largest, living trees in the United States. Now, the program is moving from the organization’s headquarters to a new home in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (UTIA).