Building resilience: How Tree Equity can address extreme heat and promote climate justice 

By Lida Aljabar | September 5, 2024

American Forests helped to unlock the historic $1.5 billion for urban and community forestry in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), and American Forests is putting these dollars into action as a national pass-through funding partner of the USDA Forest Service through our Tree Equity Catalyst Initiative.

American Forests awards over $25 million in grants to 36 urban and community projects to promote Tree Equity  

September 4, 2024

The funding will help bring the many benefits of trees and urban greening to communities across the country, especially those that have been historically disadvantaged.

Restoring a future for our forests through the REPLANT Act 

By Brian Kittler | August 8, 2024

In the year since we announced our REPLANT partnership with the Forest Service, we’ve been hard at work. American Forests has been meeting with each of the nine Forest Service regions across the country to help them plan what they need to grow their restoration programs over the next decade.

Back to the Future

February 1, 2020

American Forests’ Rich Legacy Shapes the Future of Forestry By Jad Daley OUR ROOTS RUN DEEP. In the early 1900s,

Back to the Future

February 1, 2020

Discover how American Forests’ extensive history has shaped the future of forestry.

American Forests Responds: Confirmation of Jim Hubbard as USDA Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment

August 31, 2018

American Forests, the nation’s oldest forest conservation organization, is applauding this week’s confirmation of Jim Hubbard as Undersecretary for Natural

Borderlands Refuge

June 1, 2018

Saving an endangered ecosystem in the Lower Rio Grande Valley By Krista Schlyer; All photos by Krista Schlyer A beautiful,

Of Owls and Salamanders

June 1, 2018

By Betsy L. Howell Land still showing effects from the Las Conchas Fire three years later. Credit: Mark Watson, New

American Forests Responds: Jim Hubbard USDA Under Secretary Nomination

April 19, 2018

American Forests strongly supports the nomination of Jim Hubbard to Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment. Jim

Forest Digest: March 18, 2018

March 18, 2018

Check out what’s happened this week in forestry news! The National Forests Of The Future Need To Be In Cities

From the Field: MISSOULA, MONT.

February 6, 2018

Missoula, Mont. Eric Sprague, Director of Forest Conservation Whitebark at Crater Lake. Credit: Howard Ignatius. SCENIC VISTAS at the end

Action Center: Fire Funding Fix

February 6, 2018

2017 Whittier Fire in California. Credit: Glenn Beltz THIS FIRE SEASON has only amplified the need for Congress to pass

Living Proof

January 30, 2018

The success of the Kirtland’s warbler proves the Endangered Species Act can be exceptionally effective By Doyle Irvin The original

Hurricanes and Trees: It’s Complicated

October 5, 2017

By Ian Leahy, Director of Urban Forest Programs When I took a city government job caring for trees after having

“Partnering for Forests”: A Look at Our Latest Publication

September 20, 2017

By Alex Toglia, American Forests American Forests, along with partners American Forest Foundation, Arbor Day Foundation, National Association of State

Forest Digest — Week of July 17, 2017

July 23, 2017

Read the latest in forest news and updates from American Forests staff and programs in this week’s Forest Digest! Forest

Thin Green Line: The Heroic Work of Game Wardens

October 27, 2016

By James A. Swan California Fish and Wildlife has organized a special tactical unit to target organized crime on wildlands,

The Making of a Leader in Forestry

October 7, 2016

BY LEA SLOAN Mary Wagner. Credit: U.S. Forest Service   Mary Wagner, Associate Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, retired in

Daniel Dey, Research Forester & Project Leader, U.S. Forest Service

September 30, 2016

Back to Magazine Table of Contents DANIEL DEY is a Project Leader & Research Forester in the Northern Research Station of the

Jim Furnish, retired deputy chief, USDA Forest Service

February 2, 2016

Jim Furnish is currently a consulting forester in the Washington D.C. area following a 34-year career with the USDA Forest

2016 Marks National Park Service Centennial

January 28, 2016

By Etienne Laffargue, Policy Intern Yosemite National Park. Credit: Chuck Fazio, our Artist-in-Residence. Over the last century, the National Park

Spotting the Silent Survivor

October 16, 2015

One researcher’s work to protect the spotted owl throughout Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula By Betsy Howell Spotted owl swooping in to take mouse

The Art of Advocacy

July 6, 2015

Sketching a Way to Smart Land Use WITH WHAT SEEMS LIKE CONTINUOUS congressional proposals to give or sell federal lands

Mary Mahalovich Gives Whitebark Adaptation a Boost

By Laura Lundquist | June 29, 2015

Whitebark pine. AT THE FOREST SERVICE NURSERY in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, U.S. Forest Service geneticist Mary Frances Mahalovich subjects hundreds

Remembering a Champion of Forests: J.A. Warder

June 29, 2015

By Sydney Mucha J.A. Warder as a young man. FORESTS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN John Aston Warder’s first passion, but

Eradication Nation

January 26, 2015

What Boston’s battle with the Asian longhorned beetle can teach us about stopping an invasive pest in its tracks. By

Smokey Turns 70

June 3, 2014

By Kathiann M. Kowalski Smokey Bear ads in 1944, 1979 and 2011. Credit: Ad Council A NEW SMOKEY Seventy years

Aldo Leopold’s “The Last Stand of the Wilderness”

December 24, 2013

American Forests and Forest Life, October 1925 A Plea for Preserving a Few Primitive Forests, Untouched by Motor Cards and

Leif Haugen, Fire Lookout

May 16, 2013

By Tom Persinger Tent and Haugen’s lookout. Photo: Tom Persinger The old tent creaks and buckles under the force of

More Than Lakes

October 15, 2012

Tucked among western New York’s Finger Lakes is a national forest haven for hikers, horseback riders and more. By Steve Bailey

Transition for Tongass

July 31, 2012

Once the heart of dozens of logging towns, Tongass National Forest is now shifting its focus from timber to salmon,

Forest Frontiers: Robert Mangold

April 12, 2012

American Forests’ Science Advisory Board member Dr. Robert Mangold has a long history in the field of forest management, including

Forest Frontiers: Greg McPherson

January 31, 2012

  American Forests’ Science Advisory Board member Dr. Greg McPherson is a research forester with the USDA Forest Service’s Pacific