Resilient Forests
Restoring America's large forest landscapes

American Forests’ Resilient Forests program restores forest health across the United States, Canada and Mexico. We focus on helping forests adapt to stressors that climate change is making more severe and more frequent. These include extreme wildfire, deep droughts and outbreaks of pests and disease. By creating healthy forests, American Forests also helps to combat the climate crisis.The carbon captured in trees and soil, combined, make forests the most effective nature-based solution to climate change.

Reforestation is a key way that our Resilient Forests program restores forest health. With 133 million acres of former forest in the U.S. suitable for reforestation, the opportunity is gigantic. American Forests has planted more than 65 million trees in the last 30 years alone. As part of the Trillion Trees movement, we’ve pledged to plant 100 million more trees in large forest landscapes by 2030.

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This program strives to achieve these goals by 2030:
More than 1/4
of our carbon emissions are captured by America's forests and wood products annually, catalyzed by forest conservation and climate-smart forestry.
1 trillion trees
have been conserved, restored and grown aroundthe world.
20 million acres
of public land have been reforested by planting and naturally regenerating more than 6 billion trees.
Our Approach to Restoring Resilient Forests
Innovation
American Forests’ climate-smart forest restoration methods foster forests that can better withstand extreme weather, such as prolonged drought and severe wildfire. We test new, more effective ways of planting and caring for trees in landscapes from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to the hills of Paradise, California.
Our Approach to Restoring Resilient Forests
Place-Based Partnerships
American Forests’ place-based partnerships are the foundation of our work advancing reforestation in key landscapes. We work with organizations as small as local conservation groups and as large as the United States Forest Service to restore healthy, thriving forests.
Our Approach to Restoring Resilient Forests
Movement-Building
American Forests’ place-based partnerships are the foundation of our work advancing reforestation in key landscapes. We work with organizations as small as local conservation groups and as large as the United States Forest Service to restore healthy, thriving forests.