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Family Forests Vital to Longleaf Pine Restoration
In April, President Obama established the Great Outdoors Initiative to develop a conservation and recreation agenda “worthy of the 21st Century and to reconnect people to the great outdoors.”
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Using Market Forces to Protect Nature’s Benefits
Using market forces to protect and restore America’s air, water and land was the theme of the 3rd Annual Conference on Ecosystem Markets, sponsored by the American Forest Foundation and World Resources Institute.
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Tom Vilsack: Unlikely Partnership for Our Clean Energy Future
In an opinion article published today in the Richmond Times Dispatch, Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, says the tremendous economic and environmental costs of the Gulf oil spill make more apparent than ever the need to make the president’s vision for a 21st century clean energy economy a reality. “America can no longer rely on energy sources that are growing increasingly difficult to find and utilize,” he writes.
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8th Grader Describes his Energy-saving GreenSchools! Project to Iowa Senator
Yesterday, one of Project Learning Tree’s Iowa GreenSchools! families, the Isbells, along with AFF’s Melissa Harden (far right) and James McGirt (far left), were afforded the opportunity to meet with Iowa Senator Tom Harkin and his staff. The gathering, which was held to allow the Senator to connect with his constituents, had about 25 people in
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Keeping Forests, Forests: Insights from Missouri
Getting out of Washington, D.C. to hear first-hand about the challenges and opportunities facing America’s private forest landowners is one of the best parts of my job.
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Harris Sherman: America’s Forests are Vital
Tom Martin, President and CEO of AFF, joined Secretary of USDA, Tom Vilsack, Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment, Harris Sherman, and Assistant Undersecretary Ann Wright at the National Summit of Rural America, held in Hillsboro, Missouri.
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WNBA and PLT Help Elementary Students Plant School Garden
The Washington Mystics players worked with 30 students from PreK through 4th grade to help green their school. Master Chef and Gardener Mark Haskell helped lead activities in which students learned the basics of planting a garden and the importance of proper nutrition. "You have to dig the hole about 12 inches," a 2nd grader told me before planting a tomato plant.
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