Type of Place

National Forests

America’s forests are at risk. Investment groups, companies and individuals privately own more than half our forestland, and it’s being carved up into smaller and more haphazard parcels all the time. Over the next 20 years, according to the U.S. Forest Service, as many as 26 million acres of America’s forests will go up for sale. When forests shrink or disappear, we lose the major benefits they provide—benefits you might not even realize.

Across more than 250 projects, we’ve helped protect roughly two million acres of forestland nationwide. Our work includes Oregon’s first state forest in half a century, Minnesota’s largest conservation project ever, and dozens of community forests, historic sites, and wilderness areas. We also sustainably manage select forestland. Our goal is to swiftly save at-risk lands, coordinate long-term conservation ownership and show that nonprofits can return forests to ecological and economic viability through sustainable management.  We work on forestry projects.