Exploring the Environment
Take trips or hikes to a forest, field, or stream; make collections, and learn about plants, trees, insects, animals, and birds. Learn about the four elements of life, the connections among living things, and how all plants and animals affect each other.
Project Evaluation Sheet
OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES
4-H Million Trees
4-H clubs and units across the nations are invited and encouraged to join this international service-learning project. The vision of 1,000,000 new trees planted by 4-H youth from approximately 90,000 clubs and units across the United States and Canada means:
- Native trees add beauty and heritage to urban, suburban, and rural communities across the nation
- Trees improve local air quality
- New trees absorb runoff, and bring groundwater to the surface
- Shade from these trees can help cool buildings, reducing air conditioning electricity needs, and eliminating pollution and carbon emissions associated with this power generation
- Offsetting greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion by absorbing and sequestering about 48,000,000 million pounds of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year
- New trees make up for trees lost to deforestation worldwide
- 7,000,000 4-H youth learn they can personally change the world
- 4HMT hopes to empower a generation of leaders by teaching them they can make a difference both individually and as a group.