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Native Trees Planted with Every Service tap to learn more
A living tribute

Native Trees Planted
in Their National Forest

With every ceremony, Bonaventure makes a donation to the USDA Forest Service Plant-A-Tree Program in your loved one's name, directed to the national forest nearest their scattering location. Real native seedlings, grown from locally sourced seed and planted by hand by Forest Service crews, taking root in the same wild landscape where your loved one now rests.

This is not a carbon credit or a symbolic gesture. These are real trees, planted in real soil, by real people who know and love these forests.

And they have a purpose. The Forest Service plants these trees to heal lands lost to wildfire, recover forests devastated by invasive pests, and ensure these wild places continue to exist for the generations that come after us. The tree planted in your loved one's memory is doing real work in a place that needs it.

Where their trees are planted
Great Smoky Mountains
Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee
Native hardwood seedlings per ceremony. Eastern white pine, red oak, and tulip poplar, restoring the rich Appalachian forests of one of America's most beloved natural landscapes.
Tennessee Highlands
Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee
Native seedlings per ceremony. Eastern white pine and mixed Appalachian hardwoods, strengthening the forests of the Cumberland and southern Appalachian highlands.
Gulf Coast
Conecuh National Forest, Alabama
Native longleaf pine seedlings per ceremony, restoring one of the most threatened forest ecosystems in the Southeast along the Gulf Coast corridor.
Olympic Rainforest & Whale Trail
Olympic National Forest, Washington
Native seedlings per ceremony. Douglas fir, western hemlock, western red cedar, and Sitka spruce, growing in the ancient temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula.

Donations go directly to the U.S. Forest Service and fund real, documented planting projects in your loved one's national forest. Learn more at plantatree.fs.usda.gov.

Family-Owned, Park-Rooted, and Built for This Moment

We are Sarah-Marie and Joseph, and we lead an entirely family-run team of wilderness professionals, conservation specialists, and experienced public lands guides. We actually met and fell in love while living and working in the National Parks. The summer we met, we fell deeply in love with the landscape and with each other, and that love has shaped everything we do and everything we are.

Our team brings nearly a century of combined experience across America's public lands: conservation, wilderness navigation, backcountry expertise, and a reverence for these places that took years to earn. Our team includes former National Park Rangers, a soil scientist and ornithologist with mountaineering credentials across the Rockies, and an 18-year editorial professional and former wilderness expedition leader. This is the knowledge and care we bring to every family we serve.

Apart from our expertise, we deeply care for every single person we come in contact with. We invest our time and help freely and kindly.

When a family designates us as their representative, they are trusting us with something sacred. Every detail of your loved one's journey is carried out by our tight-knit family with precision, care, and reverence, on your behalf and under your authority.

We are profoundly privileged to help honor your loved one's final chapter. Every life is vividly individual and worthy of a beautiful ending.

-Sarah-Marie and Joe Sherbon, Founders of Bonaventure

Joe and Sarah Bonaventure

Native Trees Planted with Every Service tap to learn more
A living tribute
Native Trees Planted
in Their National Forest

With every ceremony, Bonaventure donates to the USDA Forest Service Plant-A-Tree Program in your loved one's name. Real native seedlings, planted by hand by Forest Service crews, taking root in the same wild landscape where your loved one now rests.

These trees heal lands lost to wildfire, recover forests devastated by invasive pests, and ensure these wild places exist for generations to come. Real trees. Real soil. Real purpose.

Where their trees are planted
Yellowstone — Shoshone National Forest, WY
~9 Engelmann Spruce & Douglas Fir seedlings
Grand Tetons — Bridger-Teton National Forest, WY
10–15 Lodgepole Pine & Engelmann Spruce seedlings
Rocky Mountain — Arapaho-Roosevelt NF, CO
10–12 Ponderosa Pine & Douglas Fir seedlings
Olympic — Olympic National Forest, WA
10–15 Douglas Fir, Sitka Spruce & Western Red Cedar

Donations go directly to the U.S. Forest Service. Learn more at plantatree.fs.usda.gov.

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Bonaventure is a family-owned team of wilderness professionals with 85+ years of combined wilderness and conservation experience. We handle every detail and deliver a beautiful, documented scattering ceremony in some of the most pristine landscapes in the United States.

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