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Welcome to the 2021 National Register of Champion Trees! Search the register below to see the National Champion Trees by species or look to see which ones are in your state. You can even search National Champion Trees by size or total points.
Today’s National Register of Champion Trees lists 561 species found across the U.S. from the General Sherman Sequoia in California to a 90-foot-tall white oak in Virginia.
Throughout the year, American Forests works closely with all state-level Champion Tree Programs to ensure that the largest trees in your state are recognized on our National Register. Consider nominating your tree to your state program first!
Trees are vital to our health and wealth. But a map of tree cover in cities is too often a map of income and race; trees are sparse in low-income neighborhoods and some neighborhoods of color. Our Tree Equity program strives to create Tree Equity — trees where they are needed the most.
specimen of many species, American Forests has planted nearly 50 million trees in endangered ecosystems, pioneered the field of urban forestry and maintained the Champion Trees national register, a list of the biggest trees in America.
Welcome to the National Register of Champion Trees nomination form page! Starting December 1, 2021 nominations of specimens to the National Register must include the 6 photographs outlined in the form below.
American Forests is proud to present its 2018 Champion Trees National Register, listing the largest and most impressive trees of their kind. This year, big tree hunters from across the country doubled down and found an almost unprecedented number of new champions – more than 170 – to add to the list of America’s giants.
The champion American tree for geographic area, and possibly number of individuals, is the quaking aspen. It ranges from Alaska to Newfoundland, Canada, covering 110 degrees of longitude (nine time zones), and from north of the Arctic Circle to central Mexico, some 49 degrees of latitude.
The nationwide hunt for the biggest trees in the United States launches with an appeal to the public to find and save the largest of a list of 100 tree species. Standing 275 feet tall, California’s General Sherman Giant Sequoia is the world’s largest tree by volume.
Today, thanks to American Forests, you can see national-champion trees scattered about the country that approximate the growth potential of our eastern native trees. And thanks to the foresight and selfless action of a small number of people, you can still see small, protected enclaves of old growth that convey the true biological and aesthetic ...