1 Million Trees for California
Infinity Broadcasting and American Forests hope to raise $500,000 during the month of October to plant 1 million trees in wildfire-ravaged southern California.
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Urban Forest Conference
The urban forest is an untapped resource-one that can help cities meet regulatory requirements for clean air and water, revitalize neighborhoods, and reduce the cost of building and maintaining infrastructure.
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Take a Break, Plant a Tree
There's still time to get away from it all, and tree-lovers have a couple of options to help the environment while having fun.
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Big Trees, Big Value
American Forests will be talking up the importance of big trees to communicate the value of urban forests, thanks to a cost-share grant from the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council and the U.S. Forest Service.
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A Cooler Commute
Clif Bar Inc is committed to people's health and the environment-and to reducing its ecological footprint along the way. With that in mind, Clif Bar started its Cool Commute program, planting trees to offset the carbon emissions of its employees' commutes.
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Trees in the Mail
Got Leads wants to go the extra step for its customers and the communities in which they live, so the national direct mail marketing company will plant five trees for every 1,000 pieces of direct mail delivered.
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More Threats for Siberian Tigers
The endangered Siberian tiger, already suffering from habitat loss and a shrinking population in the wild, now faces yet another threat: distemper.
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Sustainable Olympics
When athletes lit the Olympic flame in Athens this past summer the cause of sustainable forestry burned a little brighter too.
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Sandy Bottom
The builders of a new upscale housing development called Jumeira Islands in the United Arab Emirates plan to use "hydrogel" technology to improve water retention and plant an attractive oasis, reports the New York Times.
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Nightmare for Elm Trees, 2
Residents of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, are pretty much sick of Dutch elm disease. The disease, a notorious fungus that chokes up trees' water transport systems, first visited Stevens Point in the 1960s and 1970s. Unfortunately, that wasn't the last of it.
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Big Role for Small Lemurs
Lemurs may play a big role in propagating the forest of Madagascar, according to National Geographic. These mostly small primates, which among other things provide a clue to our own evolution, live exclusively on the island nation off the east coast of Africa.
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Ohio v. Emerald Ash Borer
Researchers are putting up "traps" in northwest and central Ohio to track the movements of the emerald ash borer, reports the Detroit Free Press.
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Heard It Through the Grapevine
Annoying vines that strangle trees in Westchester, New York, now must face the music, says the New York Times. Thatcher Drew, who hails from Bronxville, founded a volunteer organization called Vinecutters, to do just what the name implies: cut and kill invasive vines before those vines kill trees on the Bronx River Parkway.
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