Restoration means creating and maintaining healthy, resilient forests capable of delivering all the benefits that people get from them: clean air and water, carbon sequestration, habitat for native fish and wildlife, forest products, opportunities for outdoor recreation, and more.

Reforestation involves the natural or intentional regeneration of tree cover after forest loss. Much of American Forests’ reforestation work involves planting nursery-grown seedlings after events that have resulted in the partial or total destruction of a forest.

2025年1月28日 · In this article, TNC's Sr. Forest Restoration Scientist, Dr. Susan Cook-Patton, summarizes the latest science of reforestation. Plant a Billion Trees Donate to help us plant and care for trees in critical forests around the world in Brazil, China, Colombia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mexico and the United States.

Forest restoration is defined as "actions to re-instate ecological processes, which accelerate recovery of forest structure, ecological functioning and biodiversity levels towards those typical of climax forest", [1] i.e. the end-stage of natural forest succession.

The purpose of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) is to encourage the collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes. An increase in annual appropriation for a total of $32 million will fund two additional CFLRP projects in Fiscal Year 2023.

All or parts of national forests and grasslands need restoring when they have been: Destroyed: severe degradation or damage removes all macroscopic life and drastically alters the physical environment.

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded forest landscapes. FLR is more than just planting trees – it is restoring a whole landscape to meet present and future needs and to offer multiple benefits and land uses over time.