Actress and Magazine Support Wildfire ReLeaf
Last year's fires burned over half a million acres in California. Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar has joined the effort to raise money to bring back these lost forests, Gellar with support from Netaya.com & Marie Claire Magazine.
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Artists for a Cool Planet
American Forests has teamed up with Danby Refrigerators to produce the ultra-hip, ultra-chic, ultra-cool program, "Artists for a Cool Planet." Ten renowned artists-from landscape photographer Clyde Butcher to world-class surfer/painter Christian Riese Lassen-have created original paintings and photographs to be reproduced on refrigerator doors.
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Rare Tigress Dies, Attracts Environmental Attention
A Rare Siberian tigress, so dazed by illness she wandered into a village in Russia's Far East, died of a disease that attacked her nervous system, the Itar-Tass news agency reported in late January.
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Toyota and American Forests Plant a "Living Classroom"
Elementary school students in the Southeast will learn more about how their environmentally conscious decisions can help maintain the environment through a program sponsored by American Forests and Southeast Toyota.
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Valentine's Day Chocolate in Trouble?
Just in time for one of the biggest chocolate-buying holidays of the year, there's some sobering news for Valentine's Day gift-seekers: All is not well in the world of chocolate.
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Records Show CA Rejection of Emergency Funds for Dead Tree Removal
According to the San Francisco Gate newspaper, records show California's pleas last spring for emergency federal aid to remove more than a million highly flammable dead and diseased trees were quickly rejected by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, it was earlier this month.
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Forest Species on the Brink?
Did you know about 19 percent of native animal species and 15 percent of native plants species in United States forests are ranked as "imperiled" or "critically imperiled" Another 1 percent of plants and 3.5 percent of animals might already be extinct?
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Biscuit Timber Will Not Be Logged
According to an article published by The Oregonian this month, Oregon State University forestry professor John Sessions thinks much of the timber burned by the 2002 Biscuit Fire in Oregon will never be cut because it will have lost its value to decay.
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Old Glory On the Move
The Los Angeles Times reports that Old Glory has been moved. The 70-foot valley oak that sparked a debate over the pace of growth in north Los Angeles County was towed from its centuries-old home in a California suburb in late January, making way for a road-widening project that had originally doomed it to the chipper.
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American Forests' Feature Creature: Bald Eagle
The bald eagle, our national bird, is the only eagle unique to North America. The bald eagle is found over most of North America, from Alaska and Canada to northern Mexico.
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Interesting Fact: Thanks to harsh environmental conditions, a tree growing in the city has an average life expectancy of seven years. That's compared to the same tree's rural life expectancy of 150 years!

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