Gift Trees Planting Project – Wisconsin

Project Description

This Gift Tree Planting Project is in Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin. This National Forest covers more than 1.5 million acres of Wisconsin’s Northwoods.

Due to logging in the early part of the 20th century, and more recently, severe wind events, very little old growth forest remains. Some of the trees that grow there today were planted by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. Your project is mostly composed of pine, hemlock, and tamarack trees, and will contribute to provide habitat to species that occupy forest instead of open areas like moose, deer, bears, foxes, hares, grouses and many other mammals, birds and insects. It will contribute to the ecosystem resistance and resilience against insects and will also contribute to the capture of carbon through trees thereby fighting climate change.