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The State of the Puget Sound Tree Canopy

By: Hannah Kett, Urban Program Director at The Nature Conservancy - Washington | June 14, 2022

As Puget Sound cities and towns experience rapid growth, identifying opportunities to invest in high-impact tree planting and preservation projects is essential to ensuring people will continue to receive the multiple benefits of trees.

A coalition of local, regional and national partners has come together to address this goal and develop a model for the Central Puget Sound region to target projects that maximize the benefits of the urban tree canopy.

What States Received the Most Pandemic Cover Crop Program Funding?

By: Max Webster, American Farmland Trust Midwest Policy Manager | May 25, 2022

Cover crops are one of the most effective conservation practices that farmers can use to protect soil health. The Pandemic Cover Crop Program proves it’s possible to quickly implement an effective program to help farmers plant cover crops – an important agricultural Natural Climate Solution.

Austin Rempel/American Forests

Four Steps to Reforest the West for Climate Resilience

By: Jad Daley, American Forests President & CEO | May 25, 2022

Climate-adapted reforestation will do more than just save forests — it will also help save lives and property, too. That’s because planting climate-resilient forests is a crucial opportunity to get ahead of escalating wildfire threats in our western communities.

Eamon Mac Mahon

The Most Effective Carbon Credit Projects Place Communities Front & Center

By: Carolyn Ching, Ceres | April 19, 2022

Done right, carbon credit projects have the potential to both reduce emissions and empower communities. But done wrong, they can make the situation worse for populations already vulnerable to climate change, as well as actually exacerbate the climate crisis. The stakes for getting carbon credit projects right are only going to keep rising.

Maddie McGarvey

Grafting the Future of the Ash Tree

By: Katherine Gustafson for American Forests Magazine | April 14, 2022

By supporting the fight against the emerald ash borer and other damaging pests, American Forests and its partners are bringing solutions to the ground level and finding ways for reforestation efforts to have the greatest possible longevity.

Carbon Captured by Coastal & Ocean Habitats Can Advance States’ Climate Goals: Experts discuss growing ‘blue carbon’ data and resources, and their potential role in policy

By: Sylvia Troost & Alex Clayton, Pew Charitable Trusts | March 30, 2022

Coastal wetlands support a huge range of life on Earth and provide the major benefit of capturing and storing carbon—so-called “blue carbon.” Conserving and restoring these ecosystems can contribute to broader efforts that combat climate change.

Larry Ditto/American Forests

Gisel Garza: Seed Hunter

By: Lee Poston for American Forests | March 16, 2022

Seedlings are desperately needed to restore the 85,000 acres of thornforest in the Texas’ Rio Grande Valley that have been identified as a high priority for reforestation. It would take 85 million seedlings to reforest that many acres, a number that would take 166 years to grow at the current rate of production among nurseries. Seed hunters like Gisele Garza are helping to meet this challenge head on.

America the Beautiful, in Action: The Nature Conservancy's Recommendations for an Atlas to 2030 Conservation Goals

By: Tom Cors, Director of Lands for U.S. Government Relations, The Nature Conservancy | March 11, 2022

America’s landscapes are unlike anything in the world. But the twin crises of climate change and global biodiversity loss present an existential threat to these places and our future. The America the Beautiful initiative is an ambitious but achievable goal to respond to this threat by conserving, connecting and restoring 30% of our lands and waters by 2030.

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Kernza®: A Perennial Grain with Climate Solution Potential Baked Right In

By: Tim Crews and Tammy Kimbler, The Land Institute | February 4, 2022

Perennial grain crops hold unique and robust potential to help mitigate climate change by capturing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and putting it back into the soil.