ADVERTISEMENT America’s forests are critically important to our water, wildlife and way of life throughout the nation. They are home to critical watersheds and headwaters in the West, they provide crucial habitat and migration corridors to iconic species and they support hundreds of thousands of jobs in a wide range of sectors throughout the nation. That’s why our organizations — the National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy and American Forests — came together to support a new approach to national forest restoration and management. Our platform to revitalize our national forests, based on the input of dozens of forest management and policy experts from across the United States, would invest at least an additional $1 billion per year in the U.S. Forest Service’s budget. This new funding — dwarfed by the damage wildfires routinely wreak on communities — would increase the scale and quality of forest restoration, including reorienting national forest stewardship to focus on climate and related ecological benefits.