TREE SPECIES PLANTED
Hardwood Forestry Fund trees are planted to establish high quality hardwood resources, educate the public about the importance of sustainable forest management, and benefit soil, water, wildlife, recreation, and air quality. The Hardwood Forestry Fund has supported approximately 200 planting projects with more than 2,250,000 hardwood seedlings planted in 22 U.S. states and four foreign countries. Contributors to the Hardwood Forestry Fund have:

  • reforested areas severely burned by wildfire

  • planted sites damaged by wind and ice storms

  • reforested areas decimated by insect and disease

  • begun extensive work to reforest idle former agricultural land

  • worked to improve native species components on naturally regenerating sites

Most regeneration of hardwoods occurs naturally because of seed sources and of hardwood trees' ability to sprout into the next generation of trees. However, hardwood seedling planting is appropriate on many sites because natural regeneration of desired tree species is not present. This is where the Hardwood Forestry Fund takes an active role in future forest establishment by creating more species diversity and by ensuring abundance of native species in young stands.

Tree Species Planted 1990-2007



 


 

 

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