Every seedling has a plan
A seedling slightly taller than a pencil rests against an ash-covered ground.Behind it stand the blackened trunks of a recently burned section of the Boise National Forest.Within a moment, the planted roots of that seedling will disappear into the soil. Before a single tree is planted after a wildfire, foresters have already spent months determining where reforestation is needed, which…
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Reforestation takes root
A well-planted seedling takes root on the Mount Shasta landscape, as part of the Lava Fire Restoration Project in Northern California, April 2026. In just over three planting seasons, Forest Service crews and partners have planted 1.47 million seeds across 2,769 acres of burned landscape. (…
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Wisconsin community plants trees for Arbor Day
Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Natural Resources Staff Officer Ann Dassow shows students how to plant a tree on Arbor Day at the USDA Forest Service office in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. (USDA Forest Service photo by Veronica Hinke)
WISCONSIN—Elementary school students in Rhinelander,…
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Blessed are those who plant trees under whose shade they will never sit: Arbor Day 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The work we do in the USDA Forest Service is uniquely tied to Arbor Day, a day intended to inspire people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees. In our agency, we can “see the forest for the trees,” and our work in conservation, restoration and research helps maintain the health of forests worldwide.Arbor Day is a good day to “tell our story” and explain the human and natural…
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Sprucing up high-elevation forests
This landscape shows some of the extent of the damage to the Black Hollow site. Restoration crews are working to transplant seedlings to suitable areas within the fire scar to reduce nutrient runoff to the watershed below. (USDA Forest Service photo by Erika Reiter)
After the intense…
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Supporting international ecological education
The EcoEducators Network visited a tree-planting project site in Moldova to learn about environmental education. USDA Forest Service photo.
WASHINGTON, DC—The USDA Forest Service Office of International Programs traveled to Moldova in early August to participate in a workshop on environmental…