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This will be accomplished in a collaborative setting with our regional partners, including the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, Texas A&M Forest Service and others. The Project Manager will report to the Senior Manager of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and support work on our projects in deep south Texas. Support for Restoration Projects (80%) Direct support in native seed collection from woody and herbaceous species Periodic assistance in both nursery and field-based research initiatives Administrative/Other (20%) TO APPLY: American Forests is a national non-profit organization committed to creating healthy and resilient forests from cities to wilderness that deliver essential benefits for climate, people, water and wildlife.

They need to more than double their current output to meet the 2040 goal, according to Challenges to the Reforestation Pipeline in the United States, a new study led by American Forests and The Nature Conservancy. As the net zero economy expands over the next two decades, the private sector will meet a large share of its net zero commitments through nature-based carbon removal. The U.S. Forest Service is the nation’s largest forest owner, with a reforestation backlog of 8 million acres — a need that’s growing by hundreds of thousands of acres a year, largely due to wildfire. In fact, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps created many of the nation’s first state nurseries and, as a result, was able to plant more than 3 billion trees.

’s tree nurseries need to increase seedling production by an additional 1.7 billion each year, a 2.4-fold increase over current nursery production. To meet the need for reforestation, we’ll need to invest in more trees, more nurseries, more seed collection, and a bigger workforce,” said the study’s lead author, Joe Fargione of The study is the most comprehensive look to date at the barriers to ramping up seedling production in the U. S. “Nurseries are critical to our national carbon removal ambitions but they face serious labor and funding shortfalls,” said American Forests Senior Director of Forest Restoration Brian Kittler, one of the study authors. On private lands, they include the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), as well as state conservation agency cost-share programs.

All told, the Reforestation Hub reveals how reforesting the United States could absorb an additional 333 million metric tons of carbon per year — equivalent to the carbon emissions from all of the passenger vehicles in California, Texas, and New York Lead scientist Susan Cook-Patton, Senior Forest Restoration Scientist at The Nature Conservancy, hopes this granular analysis will help land managers and policymakers find the options that best meet local, state, and national goals around growing trees for public and private benefit. The Reforestation Hub uses several filters for isolating the most promising places for new forests: where forests grew in the past; current land ownership; land type; benefits to wildlife and watersheds; and cost. Foresters, land managers, and private landowners are encouraged to visit the Reforestation Hub to identify the best places, county by county, to grow new trees.