Friday July 11, 2008, 6:37 pm
"VOTE HERE" $50,000 for American Forest

Friday July 11, 2008, 6:58 pm
American Forests

Founded in 1875, American Forests’ mission is to grow a healthier world with trees by working with communities on local efforts that restore and maintain forest ecosystems. They have a goal of 100 million trees planted by 2020. 80% of the world’s forests have been destroyed or degraded half in the last 30 years alone. With the grant, American Forests proposes to restore these damaged areas in California by planting 50,000 trees through the “California Wildfire ReLeaf program,” a large-scale initiative to plant trees in areas scorched by catastrophic wildfires. Dramatic wildfires in southern California in the fall of 2007 created tremendous need for reforestation. American Forests designated a fund specifically to restore California forests after an outpouring of requests from citizens there and others across the country. All tree plantings for this project would occur in spring of 2009. This is the optimal planting season for California given the weather conditions on the west coast.
Vote Text Code: TREE to 39668