The United States on Monday said it had tripled annual reforestation spending to tackle a four million acre replanting backlog driven by intense, climate-driven wildfires.
U.S. Forest Service reforestation funding rose to over $100 million this year as part of moves to plant more than a billion trees in a decade under President Joe Biden's infrastructure package, the Department of Agriculture said in a statement.
The reforestation drive is the largest in the United States since the 1930s when billions of trees were planted under New Deal work programs, USDA Director of Forest and Rangeland Management & Vegetation Ecology David Lytle said. Forest biologists say the new reforestation budget, set under the infrastructure bill's REPLANT Act, needs to grow further to address the backlog and new blazes.
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