Tickets for Trees to plant 6,000 oak on the Allegheny NF

StubHub's Tickets for Trees Program, in concert with the National Forest Foundation, will plant 6,000 oak and other hardwood trees in spring 2009 on the Allegheny NF in northwestern Pennsylvania

In December of 2008, StubHub, the World's largest ticket marketplace, launched its "Tickets for Trees" program, an effort to plant a tree for every ticket purchased on StubHub for the 2008-9 NFL post season. In partnership with the National Forest Foundation, all tickets that were purchased through StubHub for the Pittsburgh Steelers playoff games benefited the nearby Allegheny National Forest.

6,000 oak and other hardwood seedlings will be planted in the Allegheny National Forest this Spring. The newly planted trees will benefit forest areas hit by disease and insect outbreaks, and a need to restore oak to the forest to benefit wildlife.

Other areas in the Nation are also benefitting from this program including national forests in Arizona, New York, Florida, California, Tennessee, Minnesota, and North Carolina. To date, the Tickets for Trees program will account for more than 45,000 trees being planed in National Forests nationwide. The newly planted tress will restore environmental processes, improve water quality and benefit wildlife. An estimated 20,000 tons of carbon will be sequestered, thus reducing the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

The National Forest Foundation works to conserve, restore, and enhance America's 193-million acre National Forest System. StubHub is one of its many partners.