Where We Work - Explore Our Impact Map! - American Forests

Where We Work

Explore Our Impact Map

Scaling Impact for Lives and Landscapes

American Forests creates healthy and resilient forests, from cities to large natural landscapes, that deliver essential benefits for climate, people, water and wildlife. To date, here's what we've accomplished together:

80M trees planted in large landscapes
1,000 cities in our Tree Equity movement

Explore Tree Equity and reforestation work near you and across North America:

Our Work in the Field

Processing cones at CAL FIRE's LA Moran Nursery in Davis, CA. Kuhldeep Singh, Reforestation Services Operations Manager, CAL FIRE holds a cone. CREATOR Andrew Studer

Innovative Solutions

American Forests develops new tools and conducts scientific research to help solve complicated puzzles, empower the forestry field and help forests cope with climate change.

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Trees for Houston, Google, and American Forests host a tree planting event at Shadydale Elementary to celebrate the launch of the Houston Tree Equity Score Analyzer (TESA). Rep. Thompson joins volunteers for a day of tree planting. CREATOR Tom Koenig / American Forests

Place-based Partnerships

We create place-based partnerships in cities and forest landscapes so we can work with others to develop and implement enduring, science-based forestry plans that have sustainable impact.

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medium shot of young men walking side by side while volunteering at Rio Reforestation CREATOR jeremy inglesi jr, rgv photo video

Movement Building

We build large-scale collective action through convening cross-sector coalitions, working with policymakers on critical legislation, and empowering local communities with tools and resources.

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Our Initiatives and Projects

Tree Equity Score

American Forests created Tree Equity Score to help cities and towns address damaging environmental inequities by prioritizing human-centered investment in areas with the greatest need.

Catalyst Initiative

The Catalyst Initiative is a key part of American Forests’ goal to help at least 100 cities make meaningful progress on Tree Equity by 2030, by supporting frontline leaders in breaking barriers to the Tree Equity movement.

Coaching Network

Our Coaching Network is a community of practice for urban foresters, allied professionals, and community advocates to connect, learn, inspire, and cultivate city commitments to advance Tree Equity

Washington State Tree Equity Collaborative

Three-year statewide partnership to build rigorous and inclusive urban forestry programs

American Forests is working with U.S. Forest Service researchers and Holden Arboretum to improve genetic resilience of forests in the eastern U.S.

Career Pathways

The Career Pathways Initiative connects people, many of whom are unemployed or underemployed, to tree industry careers.

Resilient Forests

Conservation Finance

Innovative funding mechanisms can go a long way to closing the gap in funding needed to grow thriving, climate-resilient forests.

Climate Water Wildlife

Urban Forestry Technical Assistance

American Forests is helping cities around the country create effective urban forestry master plans.

Climate Equity Water

Urban ForeSTEAM

Urban foreSTEAM connects students to nature and elements of STEAM education, from the life and earth sciences to graphic design and statistics.

Resilient Forests

American Forests and the Girl Scouts of the USA are working together to plant 5 million trees across the United States in the next five years.

Resilient Forests

Restoring White Oaks

American Forests supports restoration projects to plant white oaks and improve their odds of survival.

Climate Water Wildlife

Resilient Forests

American Forests works to save Hi-5 pine trees, which are critical to wildlife habitat, regional water supplies and recreation.

Climate Water Wildlife

Resilient Forests

Forest Soil Carbon Initiative

Our Forest Soil Carbon Initiative determines the factors that influence forest soil carbon, and how our actions can protect and restore that carbon storehouse.

Resilient Forests

Forest Carbon Modeling

Forest carbon modeling creates detailed projections of how much carbon forests capture and how our actions can build or deplete that carbon.

Resilient Forests

Carbon Financing

American Forests is evolving how we work to better include carbon finance opportunities that address the challenging finances of reforestation-based carbon removal.

Resilient Forests

Eldorado National Forest

Since 2006, American Forests has planted more than one million trees in the Eldorado. These trees are planted according to our climate-smart principles.

Climate Water Wildlife

Resilient Forests

San Bernardino Mountains

American Forests has been restoring wildfire-ravaged forests across California’s San Bernardino Mountains for nearly two decades.

Resilient Forests

American Forests is restoring resilient forests in the Camp Fire's burn scar, site of California's deadliest wildfire.

Resilient Forests

Shared Stewardship

Shared stewardship encourages organizations to join forces and work across state, county or jurisdictional lines to protect forest landscapes and watersheds.

Climate Water Wildlife

Resilient Forests

The Reforestation Pipeline

The United States does not have the reforestation infrastructure, including nursery capacity, to meet the demand and opportunity for reforestation. How can we address this dilemma?

Climate Water Wildlife

Resilient Forests

Thornforest Conservation Plan

The Thornforest Conservation Plan identifies thornforest habitat and restoration opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley.

Climate Wildlife

Resilient Forests

Climate-Smart Forest Restoration

American Forests’ climate-smart forest restoration work helps to create forests that can adapt to a changing climate.

Resilient Forests

Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge

American Forests helps restore Hakalau's mountain forests, with the specific goal of boosting habitat for endangered birds.

Climate Wildlife

American Forests is pioneering a new way to build a diverse urban forestry workforce through its city-based Tree Corps model.

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