NEWS ARCHIVE
2025
WOAY-TV, "Green Forests Work Plant Trees in the Area for Earth Day"
WJAC, "Local Students Join 'Wedd Warriors' to Help Plant Nearly Extinct Trees at Fort Roberdeau"
WYMT Mountain News, "Volunteers Plant Trees on Former Mine Site"
Trib Live, "Native Planting Will Help the Wild to Reclaim Murrysville Acid Mine Remediation Site"
Radford University, "Students Get Their Hands Dirty Reforesting Appalachia During Spring Break"
2023
2022
The New York Times, "At Old Coal Mines, the American Chestnut Tries for a Comeback"
Green Forests Work, University of Virginia student and Green Forests Work Summer Intern Otis Katz
Eastern Standard, "Why the mountainous topography of Eastern Kentucky is so prone to flash flooding"
One Tree Planted, "Restoring Legacy Mined Lands in Appalachia"
2021
Arbor Day Foundation, "The Time for Trees Campaign"
World Economic Forum, Highlights of GFW's work in Appalachia
EOS, "The New River Gorge: Ancient River, Old Mines, New National Park"
Sierra Club Magazine, "The Demise and Potential Revival of the American Chestnut"
EARTH, with John Holden "Komatsu, Del Monte Foods, Veritiv Corp, MFS Investments, Smithfield Foods"
2017
UKNOW, "UK Appalachian Center, GFW Plant 2,500 Trees for Earth Day"
The Appalachian Voice, "Restoring Land for Native Plants, Bees, and Streams"
Cool Green Science, "Recovery: Farm Bill Provides Hope for the Cerulean Warbler"
Yale Environment 360, "Reclaiming Appalachia: A Push to Bring Back Native Forests to Coal Country"
2015
UK Ag News, "Bee Happy: Eighth Graders Plant Native Wildflowers in Cane Run Watershed"
Bay Journal, "American Chestnuts Rise Where Other Trees Failed to Make a Stand"
Soil Horizons, "Restoring Appalachian Forests Begins with Restoring the Soil"
Inside Energy, "Legacy of Coal: Prairies from Kentucky Mountains"
Lexington Herald Leader, "SOAR Overlooking Economic, Job Potential of Forests"
2014
Climate Change Response Framework, "Monongahela National Forest: Lambert Restoration Project"
PA Environment Digest, "American Chestnut Foundation Spring Mined Land Reforestation Plantings"
Life Science Academy, "Service Learning Spring Break 2014"
Bridgewater University, "Fighting Mountain-Top Removal with Mountain-Top Reforestation"
Living on Earth, "Saving Chestnut Trees to Reclaim Mined Mountains"
The Allegheny Front, "Coalfields to Chestnuts: Innovative Reclamation"
Lexington Herald- Leader, "Green Forests Work Tree Planting"
Salisbury Post, "Reforestation in Appalachia topic at Catawba College Event"
2013
Lexington Herald Leader, “Develop Skilled Work Force to Reforest Strip-Mined Hills”
Lexington Herald Leader, “It's Always Better to Err on the Side of Air”
WVTF NPR Virginia, "Coal Mine Reclamation"
WMMT Making Connections, "Building Back a Forest"
Gantdaily.com, "Headwaters Helps Fund Local Projects"
Yes! Magazine, "A New Deal for Appalachia’s Forests: Growing Biofuels?"
TribLIVE, "Volunteers plant ‘living memory’ trees at Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County"
"American Chestnut and Elm Planted at UVA-Wise"
Leadership U Alice Lloyd College, "Healing Appalachia: Students Work to Reclaim the Land"