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For clean water: Why you need trees for drinking water

By Lee Poston | August 29, 2025

For 150 years, American Forests and our partners have stood for ensuring that all people have access to clean water and all the benefits of trees.

Freshwater, the beating heart of the Evergreen State

By Lee Poston | February 5, 2024

Trees and water have an intrinsic relationship along the course of the Puyallup River, from the mountaintop to the city to the ocean.

Forests: The protector of water

May 31, 2021

More than half of America’s drinking water originates in forests — mainly from the rivers and streams that run through

Winter Snow, Your Water and Trees: It’s More Complicated Than You Think

January 4, 2017

By Doyle Irvin, American Forests Credit: Chuck Fazio, our Artist-in-Residence. There is an intimate relationship between wintry forests and the

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