Using your donation together with Federal funds, the Forest Service will do the planting on the National Forest nearest you or on the forest of your choice. Refer to the Regional Map for National Forest locations . The plantation will be marked with a standard Forest Service sign that names the contributing individual or organization. You may request a memorial plantation for which you will received a special memorial certificate with the deceased person's name.
Duplicate certificates are available upon request.
As the result of past catastrophes such as forest fires, about 428,000 acres of potential forest land on the National Forests in California is now brush-covered. Once the land is brush-covered, trees grow back only very slowly, if at all. To accelerate reforestation, brush must be removed, the sites prepared, and seedlings planted. Over the last 20 years wildfires have burned an average of 100,000 acres of National Forest land in California each year. Fortunately, natural re-seeding occurs on some of this burned land.