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Learn about the challenges faced by one of the country's most unique ecosystems: maritime forests. Discover how critical healthy forests are to the future of the wildflower species that call them home. Lastly, explore the seven regions across the U.S. where we'll be working through our new forest habitat restoration program, Wildlands for Wildlife. Plus, tag along on the trek to create and preserve California's Condor Trail.
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Summer 2017 Articles
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Saving Forest Habitat
I FEEL ALIVE IN THE WOODS and wholly present. The smell of damp earth, the leaf-filtered light, the distant cracks
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Earthkeepers: Conservation Begins With Your Boots On The Ground
By Doyle Irvin “I’M A DINOSAUR,” Brenda Richardson emphatically reassures me. “I still believe in picking up a phone or
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Donor Profile: Joan and Mike Diggs
Joan and Mike Diggs JOAN AND MIKE DIGGS are from a western Chicago suburb called Burr Ridge, a Tree-City-USA-awarded village named
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Corporate Partner Profile: LightStream
A Thousand Acres and Counting DID YOU KNOW that within a single acre of forest, as many as 425 million
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Washington Outlook – The Congressional Review Act: Congress Putting Our Forests in Jeopardy
The Stream Protection Rule protected several hundred miles of streams and waterways, and the forests they run through, from toxic
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Project Showcase: Doubling Down on Urban Forests
By Doyle Irvin Rich Brown DETROIT. Oakland. Cleveland and Miami. Hartford, and Atlanta. What do these cities have in common?
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Project Showcase: How Panamanians and Trees Are Saving Each Other
By Suah Cheong An Azuero spider monkey. LOCATED ON PANAMA’S PACIFIC COAST, the Azuero Peninsula has been populated by humans
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Soaring Under the Radar
BACK IN THE MID-1990s, while backpacking along the Sisquoc River, I had no idea I was actually trekking along the
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Forest Frontiers: Jill Jonnes
Jill in front of King Elmer in Lanesborough, Mass. Jill Jonnes Author of “Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees
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Last Look – Terri Chapman
In her spare time, Terri raises monarch butterflies to support the dwindling population of this iconic species and advocates for
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Losing Ground
By Jared Lloyd An aerial view over Shackleford Banks looking east toward Cape Lookout Bight and the lighthouse.   Live
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Woodland Wildflowers On The Edge
On a recent spring visit to an opulent and spacious old-growth forest in the Adirondacks, I was reminded of just
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Wildlands for Wildlife
By Eric Sprague, Justin Hynicka and Jeff Lerner In short, we have fewer forests, and large portions of those that
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