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Spring 2011
Explore the benefits of green infrastructure in Portland, Oregon, where the city’s Grey to Green program is having a positive impact on the community. Take a look at how would-be champion eastern hemlock trees are bringing attention to a disease that’s wiping them out. And learn how a Missouri man’s efforts are helping to bring back an unusual tree species, once thought to have vanished from the landscape.
Spring 2011 Articles
Departments
Natural Gas vs. Penn Forests
As the natural gas industry finds more and more resources in our nation’s forests, difficult choices between economy and environment
Communities
Trees: the New Sewers
The city of Portland, Oregon is planting tens of thousands of trees, adding green infrastructure to the traditional gray.By Lisa
Departments
Tree Saver
One man’s crusade to save an Ozark Legend.Story & photos by Paul Hagey Stephen Bost (left) and colleague Mike Fiaoni
Features
A Tale of Two Trails
The ongoing volunteer effort to create the midwest’s longest continuous hiking trail.By Jerry Dupy Credit: ANDREW.F KAZMIERSKI/ISTOCK Frustration and outrage
Features
Conservation by Coalition
Community-based conservation has affected the participants from grassroots organizers in their tiny towns to federal bureaucrats in DC. They have
Features
The Last of the Giants
Documenting and saving the largest eastern hemlocksStory & photos by Will Blozan The Caldwell Giant was one of the largest
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