Forest Service (USFS), through the Lebanon Reforestation Initiative (LRI), was inaugurated in 2011 by planting cedar, pine, wild almond, juniper, fir, oak and other seedlings, in ten regions close to Lebanon. Since 2011, more than 600,000 trees, which include cedars and other native species, have been planted throughout the state as element of the Lebanon Reforestation Initiative (LRI).