WHAT WE DO
We envision a world with 4.2 trillion trees. Our Earth currently has 3 trillion trees––which is half of the 6 trillion trees we once had. We're innovating and working hard to fix this! We provide strategy, technology, innovation, and strategic partnerships to accelerate tree planting, improve forest conservation, and leverage the collaboration between regenerative agriculture and agroforestry in order to improve land use efficiencies, yield, carbon sequestration, watershed restoration, ecological resilience, and to curb topsoil loss and biodiversity loss.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to scale implementation of the most effective afforestation methods to restore 70-80 billion trees* of biodiverse, native (where possible)**, mature forest in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, while protecting existing mature forests, creating equity amongst all people, and restoring balance between humans and nature.
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*Our goals come from the best data available for tree planting potential on a by-country basis.
**The only reason to consider non-invasive non-native species is as part of a long-term strategy to reduce future threats of climate change-related drought and pestilence, especially mountain pine beetle outbreaks throughout their range extending from Mexico to central British Columbia and along the southern Rockies near the Alberta-British Columbia border. By replacing susceptible contiguous mature lodgepole pine stands with less susceptible stands of mixed species and age classes, all consideration should be made to plant biodiverse, native species, where appropriate to the changing climate.
OUR VISION
Our Vision for the World
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Our vision is part of a larger context, in which our tri-national North American work strategically supports a larger vision for the world. We envision a world with at least 4.2 trillion trees, the majority of which are protected, mature forest. Old growth forests have been expanded and connected by wildlife corridors, using biodiverse, native species and accelerated regenerative methodologies such as scaled application of the Miyawaki method. Mature, wild forests are permanently protected through globally and regionally coordinated efforts, in partnership with local and indigenous communities. Land use for silviculture is designated as separate from wild forests, and is integrated with improved efficiencies through regenerative agriculture. Trees for logging are cultivated on lands designated for regenerative agriculture. The increased crop yield-to-acreage efficiencies afford increasing land use for regenerative agroforestry; thus a decreasing need for deforestation of mature forests.
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Our Vision for North America
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The U.S., Canada, and Mexico plant 8-10% of the global 1.2 trillion trees goal, and collectively protect 18-20% of the world’s overall 4.2 trillion trees. As of 2020, Canada has 9% of the world's forests, and can afford to expand these forests by planting 10 billion trees. The U.S. has 8% of the world's forests, and can afford to expand these forests by planting 60 billion trees. Mexico has 6% of the world's forests, and can afford to expand these forests by planting billions of trees.
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