We are the nation's oldest nonprofit citizen's conservation organization, founded in 1875. Our mission is to improve our environment by preserving and planting trees and forests. Click here to go to the American Forests website. Global ReLeaf is the tree-planting program of American Forests. This year, we will achieve our Global ReLeaf 2000 goal of planting 20 million trees for the new millennium.
Projects range from urban to rural, U.S. to overseas.
We plant trees to repair damage from mother nature and from human abuse and neglect. We plant to restore and expand wildlife and fish habitat, and to purify the water in our streams, rivers, lakes, and bays. Moreover, trees are a cost-effective, long term solution to these problems. For more, go to the American Forests website. Intense logging has decimated the stock of Korean pine, native to the region.