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· April 14, 2026
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164.2 Million Acres: Mapping America’s Reforestation Opportunity

The Reforestation Hub is an interactive tool from The Nature Conservancy and American Forests that helps landowners, practitioners, and policymakers identify the best places to restore forest cover. This spring, brand new updates were released to make the Reforestation Hub more useful than ever.  Experts from the Nature Conservancy and American Forests joined Forests Plus for a tour of the Reforestation Hub. Using the latest data and science, they shared how the Hub helps landowners, practitioners, policymakers, and conservationists identify lower-cost, higher-impact places to restore forest cover from riparian buffers and wildlife corridors to federal, tribal, state, and private lands. Thank you to the speakers who joined us:
  • Susan Cook-Patton,Lead Reforestation Scientist; The Nature Conservancy
  • Brian Kittler, Chief Program Officer; Resilient Forests at American Forests
  • Kevin O’Hara, Executive Director; Forests Plus
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