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Table of Contents I. Announcements II. What's Happening? |
. . .Tales from Urban Forests, a new series featured on NPR's Soundprint. Call your local NPR station and urge it to run this fascinating 10-part series, which features stories on a Baltimore watershed, NASA research into how to alleviate city heat in Atlanta, and the relationship between fish and trees in the Northwest, among others. You can also hear the Tales from Urban Forests series at http://trees.soundprint.org. [Back to Top]Katrina ReLeaf Grows American Forests' Katrina ReLeaf Fund continues to grow with a donation this month from Coleman Natural Foods. American Forests is partnering with the US Forest Service, state forestry agencies, and organizations in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama to provide money for local communities to restore their tree canopy. Restoring tree cover will help control stormwater, cool and clean the air, and remove toxins from groundwater. It also will help restore a degree of the familiar to ravaged communities attempting to rebound. Replanting will occur when conditions permit in 2006 and all grants will be eligible for matching funds. Our thanks, too, to the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, which made Katrina ReLeaf the focus of a campus fundraiser. The program allows bright young women to complete college during their high school years on the campus of Mary Baldwin College. To contribute to Katrina ReLeaf, click here. Click here for more about Coleman Natural Foods. [Back to Top]Do you know the value of the trees in your urban forest? Click here to check out American Forests' new urban PSAs [Back to Top]Big Trees Are Coming Watch for the updated National Register of Big Trees due out in Spring 2006. Click here to learn more about the only national listing of the nation's biggest trees. . [Back to Top]
Urban Forests Conference Draws Near We're just a few weeks away from American Forests' 2005 National Conference on Urban Ecosystems. "Nature at Your Service" will be held Nov. 17-18 at the Westin Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. Preconference registration deadline was Oct. 27. Keynote speakers for the conference include:
Celebrating with IKEA Swedish retailer IKEA is celebrating 20 years in the U.S. and American Forests will be front and center at the October festivities. Executive Director Deborah Gangloff will be on the dais at the festivities in Chicago as one of IKEA's three nonprofit partners. Over the past seven years, IKEA has partnered with American Forests to plant more than 210,000 trees in Global ReLeaf and urban community planting projects. They include an elementary school near Baltimore, Maryland; a city park in Chicago, and a portion of national forestland burned by a wildfire near Los Angeles. IKEA has also sponsored Living Classrooms-gifts of trees, lesson plans, and high-tech computer software that teach students to integrate math, science, and geography by studying the beneficial effects of trees on communities. For more on Global ReLeaf, click here. For more on IKEA, click here. [Back to Top]Regreening the Lower Rio Grande Packaging giant Tetra Pak has donated $9,800 to American Forests' effort to regreen the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Tetra Pak made the donation to American Forests' Global ReLeaf Forests program to offset the environmental effects of its corporate air travel. Wondering how your travels affect the environment? Click here for American Forests' Climate Change Calculator. Click here to offset those travels by planting trees through Global ReLeaf. Click here to read more about how American Forests' is helping the varied habitats and amazing variety of wildlife at the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Click here to learn more about TetraPak. [Back to Top]The Doctor Is In Tree questions? Ask American Forests' experts. E-mail mailto:treedoc@amfor.org or treedoctor@amfor.org [Back to Top]Alaska Bound Join American Forests for a cruise to Alaska aboard Holland America Aug. 23-Sept. 6, 2006. Visit the Inside Passage, Juneau, totems in Tongas National Forest, Denali National Park, ride a domed sightseeing train through the wild Alaskan interior, and take a riverboat tour of Athabascan Indian Camp. And there's much more. Click here for information. [Back to Top]Calling Future Urban Foresters The Garden Club of America has established a national urban forestry fellowship for qualified U.S. students. The $4,000 award will be presented in early 2006. The fellowship is open to both advanced undergrads and graduate students pursuing degrees in urban forestry, forestry, horticulture, environmental studies, or a closely related field at any U.S. four-year college or university. A selection committee from Virginia Tech's forestry department, including practicing urban forestry scientists, will review applications with the Garden Club of America. Application deadline is Jan. 31. For more information and applications forms: http://www.cnr.vt.edu/urbanforestry/scholarships.htm [Back to Top]Are You a Member? Help American Forests grow a healthier world with trees and forests. Your $25 membership plants 25 trees in a forest degraded by human or natural causes like hurricanes or wildfire. You'll also get a full year's subscription to the award-winning American Forests magazine. [Join Now!] Forest Bytes Don't forget to forward this information to friends or colleagues. |
