American Reforestation Initiative

American Reforestation Initiative (ARI) plants and distributes trees throughout the Omaha area with a number of different programs.  Start in 2020, ARI has planted over 3000 trees with a start height of 5-6', sizable trees that survive the extremes of Nebraska.  While many tree planting organizations boast about large numbers of trees planted, ARI focuses on tree survivability.  Planting a million trees a year is great, but low survivability wastes donor dollars.  Some of our programs even have money tied in for watering the trees over the summer months of the trees first two years after planting.  Current projects include planting 7500 trees in the Nebraska Memorial Forest for military hero and first responders from state of Nebraska since the Spanish American War.  We are also planting 1500 trees with the Omaha Indian Tribe.   We are working on a tree distribution in spring of 2025 in the city of Omaha from all the storm damage in 2024, calling the program the Replant Omaha Initiative.  We are working with many groups to give away 25,000 trees over the next 10 years.