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Aug 30, 2022 · Listen to the article. Tree planting is the ‘most powerful solution in the fight against climate change’, an ETH Zürich scientist says. The US is aiming to plant 1 billion trees over the next 10 years to help tackle global warming. Other projects of significant scale include 1T.org, a scheme to plant 1 trillion trees worldwide by 2030.
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Jul 25, 2022 · WASHINGTON, July 25, 2022 — Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a strategy for how the Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will address a reforestation backlog of four million acres on national forests and plant more than one billion trees over the next decade.
- 77 Projects on 51 National Forests in 25 States
- >24,000 Acres Reforested
- >45,000 Federally Threatened Whitebark Pine Seedlings Planted
- >4 Million Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide Can Be Stored Over 100 Years
- Nearly 5,000 Donors and Partners
We planted trees on National Forests across the United States through our partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and work with regional grantees and contractors. Projects run the gamut of sizes and objectives, from 2.2 million trees planted on Minnesota’s Chippewa National Forest for restoration efforts to 24 trees planted on Arizona’s Coronado N...
Collectively, our projects replanted an area the size of over 18,500 football fields. That is a large chunk of habitat that could not be reforested without the generosity of our supporters!
In December 2022, whitebark pine received federal protection under the Endangered Species Act due to its stark decline, primarily from white pine blister rust. What does that mean for this important keystone species? Many more restoration efforts to come! In 2022, we planted whitebark pine on four National Forests in Idaho, Montana, and Oregon, and...
Over the lifetime of the trees planted, they can sequester the equivalent of the greenhouse gas emissions released by the average car driving more than 10 billion miles. That’s enough to drive around the globe more than 401,000 times!
We could not have reached this point in the 50 Million campaign without the support of our many donors,Sapling members, and corporate partners. Additionally, our U.S. Forest Service partners are the project implementors and scientists behind our efforts that make reforestation a reality. They also hire and work directly with the professional tree p...
Jan 17, 2023 · This year, a total of 14,900,584 trees were planted in Canada and the United States. 11,552,169 Trees Planted in Latin America In Latin America , many of our projects focus on rebuilding forests and restoring land so the benefits of healthy tropical forests can be felt around the world.
Jul 13, 2022 · The website of the American chapter of 1t.org, for instance, reports that its various partner organizations have so far pledged to plant 50.9 billion trees by 2030. Of those trees, 48.2 billion ...
Feb 12, 2020 · The United States may not be able to plant 60 billion trees overnight, but it can start now. With a public investment of $4-4.5 billion per year — comparable to what the federal government currently spends on fossil fuel subsidies, but nearly 100 times more than what the Trillion Trees Act would provide — the country could complete this ...
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Aug 25, 2021 · The average person in the United States produces a whopping 15.5 tons of carbon dioxide a year compared with 1.9 tons for an average person in India. This means that if each person in the U.S. planted one tree per year it would offset only about 3% of the carbon dioxide they produce each year, after all 20 trees had matured.
