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Spring/Summer 2015
In our special edition anniversary issue commemorating American Forests' 140th anniversary, discover how two images on the front page of The Washington Post ignited the transformation of our nation's capital through improved care of the city's trees. Also, see how we're still cherishing some of our forests' most venerable champions. And explore the sites where we're changing the world through our Global Releaf program.
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Spring/Summer 2015 Articles
Features
The Art of Advocacy
Sketching a Way to Smart Land Use WITH WHAT SEEMS LIKE CONTINUOUS congressional proposals to give or sell federal lands
Departments
Mary Mahalovich Gives Whitebark Adaptation a Boost
Whitebark pine. AT THE FOREST SERVICE NURSERY in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, U.S. Forest Service geneticist Mary Frances Mahalovich subjects hundreds
Departments
Remembering a Champion of Forests: J.A. Warder
By Sydney Mucha J.A. Warder as a young man. FORESTS MAY NOT HAVE BEEN John Aston Warder’s first passion, but
Before & After
The Waiting Game
Black Ridge ReLeaf, 20 Years Later By Sydney Mucha The forest at black ridge in 1997. Photo credit: John T.
Features
25 Years of Global ReLeaf
These tiny seedlings in Michigan’s Au Sable State Forest were the first Global ReLeaf plantings in 1990. IN 1990, A
Features
Seeds of Change in the Nation’s Capital
How two simple images, juxtaposed side by side, started a local revolution in the heart of Washington, D.C. By Ian
Features
75 Years of Champions
By Bryant Smith The Pacific madrone was one of the species to make it on the first register in 1941
Earthkeepers
Senator Gaylord Nelson, Father of Earth Day
By Erin Sandlin GAYLORD NELSON’S lifelong goal of putting the environment onto the nation’s political agenda began when he was
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