The world is full of of degraded land where it’s hard to grow trees. Which is a problem: To fight climate change, we need to do everything we can to rebuild forests, and maintain the ones we have.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is looking for help planting trees at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge outside of Cheney next month as part of its annual volunteer-supported restoration work.

Bay Area Jefferson Award winner: Kemba Shakur, founder of the Oakland-based Urban Releaf, a nonprofit tree-planting and job-training program. How she started: It may seem natural that the descendant ...