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Earth Day Festival 2025

Earth Day Festival Muny Grounds at Forest Park, St. Louis, MO

Earth Day Festival 2025 Help us celebrate Arbor Day and Earthy Month by visiting us at Earth Day Festival! This year's theme is "Climate Hope".We will be giving away 100 […]

Earth Day Festival 2025

Earth Day Festival Muny Grounds at Forest Park, St. Louis, MO

Earth Day Festival 2025 Help us celebrate Arbor Day and Earthy Month by visiting us at Earth Day Festival! This year's theme is "Climate Hope".We will be giving away 100 […]

Christy Greenway Planting

Old St. Marcus Cemetery

Join Forest ReLeaf and Great Rivers Greenways in planting 30 trees as we celebrate the Christy Greenway and all it has to offer. Don't miss out on this chance to […]

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Join Forest ReLeaf’s team by lending your time and talents

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Get FREE TREES for public/nonprofit projects

Priority ReLeaf

Forest ReLeaf is growing trees where they’re needed most

Project Highlights

Our trees are making a difference

Treesilience

Growing a resilient tree canopy by “leveling the planting field”

Why Trees?

Community benefits and ecosystem impact

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We need trees.

For the air we breathe, the water we use, and the wildlife we love.

Trees benefit the greater good in ways that most of us don’t think of.

At Forest ReLeaf, we believe that the countless benefits of trees are worth finding creative solutions.

That’s why we work with community groups, individuals, municipal governments, under-resourced communities and non-profits in order to steward the expansion of native tree growth across Missouri.

We don’t just plant trees randomly.

We strategically plan for well-adapted, ecologically appropriate trees in the right places to support thriving, biodiverse forest systems across our urban and wildlands. In 2023 this looked like:

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Jess Underwood
Finance & Operations Director

After 17 years in the non-profit and public sector, Jess remains committed to mission-driven work that tackles the challenges facing our communities. Their career began with a year of service as an Americorps St. Louis Emergency Response team member, responding to natural disasters and performing conservation projects. That foundation of service led to roles supporting the arts, affordable housing, mental health, and grassroots housing advocacy in St. Louis. During this journey Jess has worked to center the value “nothing about us, without us.” They do their best to ensure that the voices of people who have been marginalized guide the strategy and execution of work that honors their lived experiences. When they aren’t working, Jess is out paddling, hiking, working in their garden, or building something.