American Forests back issues from June 2001:
Letters.(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
Jun 22, 2001 ... THE THINGS TREES EAT editor: I'm collecting images of trees and the things they "eat." Maybe you've noticed a tree in your area that has devoured something in its growth path. If you have, please contact me. Hugh Karraker Redding. Connecticut ...
Free Doctor.(tree care advice)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Q: We live in Florida, and bought a dogwood from the Extension service on Arbor Day three years ago. Our tree is flourishing, with beautiful foliage, however we have never gotten one single flower. Do we need two trees to pollinate each other? Please help. Shirley Noble, via ...
Nastiness in the Woods.(need for tree planting and community-based forestry)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... MICHELLE ROBBINS Bugs, blights, and wildfires by the score. Mother Nature is sending us a wake-up call. Is anyone listening? What's on your schedule this summer? A Well-deserved vacation, some outdoor time? If you live in the woods and haven't planned how you'd make ...
Sudden Death Looms for Oaks.(sudden oak death tree disease hits Marin County, CA)
Jun 22, 2001; ... A swift-moving disease threatens California's signature tree, among others--and raises the specter of Dutch elm disease and chestnut blight. It's not an obsession; after all, Kent Julin gets paid for looking at trees. Still, each day when he comes home he can't help but examine ...
News from the world of Trees.(memorial trees cut in Washington, DC; big tree competition)
Jun 22, 2001 ... IN MEMORY: MEMORIAL TREES First Lady Pat Nixon's southern magnolia and a Liberty Tree tulip poplar will he spared the ax when construction begins next year on a new visitors' center at the U.S. Capitol. But five other memorial trees, and five dozen with less impressive lineages, ...
Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands by Richard W. Behan, S29.95.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... This is Behan at his best--hard-hitting, challenging corporate and public institutions for plundering our public lands over 200 years. A respected natural resource scholar and past director of AMERICAN FORESTS Behan sets as his stage the "astonishing extent" of America's public lands: more ...
America's Famous and Historic Trees: From George Washington's Tulip Poplar to Elvis Presley's Pin Oak by Jeffrey G. Meyer with Sharon Linnea, $30.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... I am fascinated by old trees, like the ancient white oaks along the shore of Lake Champlain where we live. Sitting in their shade is magic, especially with a copy of Jeff Meyer's wonderful book. Meyer tells the stories of 17 especially historic trees, explaining how their seeds ...
No Man's Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and Nature by Daniel B. Botkin $24.94.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The title of this book could well be, "Thoreau as Metaphor; Botkin's Vision for Civilization and Nature," since Botkin explores the life of Henry David Thoreau only "as a metaphor" for finding a better way to understand humanity's relationship to the natural world. Botkin ...
"FRANKENTREES"?(vandalism incidents protest experimental genetic engineering on trees)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... An anonymous group of environmental activists chopped down or girdled nearly a thousand cottonwoods and aspens at Oregon State University this spring, hoping to stop experimental genetic engineering on the trees. Then in May, the University of Washington's Center for Urban ...
BOSWORTH TAKES OVER CHIEF SLOT.(Dale N. Bosworth appointed chief of U.S. Forest Service)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Dale N. Bosworth, regional forester for the Forest Service's Northern Region, took over as chief of the U.S. Forest Service in April. A 35-year Forest Service employee, he was last based in Missoula, Montana, overseeing 25 million acres in 12 national forests and four grasslands across ...
WILDFIRE RELEAF: CALIFORNIA STYLE.(trees planted in Angeles National Forest)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Nearly 40 years after a fire scoured the Los Pinetos Ridge of Angeles National Forest, some 30 high school kids did their part to repair the damage--by planting trees. The students, mostly 10th graders from Benjamin Franklin High School in Los Angeles, worked side-by-side with ...
DEVELOPING DENVER NEEDS TREES.(how tree cover reduces costs for cities)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Ever wonder what a bunch of trees in a city are worth? Consider this: Trees in Denver and in seven other Colorado cities are worth a total of $44 million in stormwater management--$3.2 million a year. Add another $5.3 million a year to factor in the removal of a couple million ...
BUTTERFLY BOMB OR BAD WEATHER?(reason for butterfly deaths in Mexico unknown)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Millions of monarch butterflies died in Mexican forests this spring before they could make their seasonal migration to Canada. Experts were still debating whether the deaths were due to chemicals or a cold snap, hut either way, the politics of logging was part of the discussion. ...
TRANSITIONS.(environmentalists, US Forest Service and other employees who have changed jobs)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Coming aboard (AMERICAN FORESTS' Board): Former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman, 56, now with the Washington law firm, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. A former congressman, Glickman served in the Clinton administration from 1995 until January--one of the longest tenures in that post ...
A TREE TRIBUTE FOR DC.(endowment from Betty Brown Casey to evaluate trees in Washington, D.C.)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Eugene B. Casey had seen cities around the world, but in his eyes, his hometown of Washington was the most beautiful--because of its trees. So his widow, Betty Brown Casey, thought it a fitting tribute to donate $50 million to restore the city's urban forest to the grandeur he loved. ...
PROTECTIVE GEAR FOR NEW YORK CITY TREES.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... It's tough being a tree in New York City--traumatized by trash trucks, deified by dogs, and banged up by bicycles. One on 53rd Street was so mistreated that a longtime resident on the block posted a sign: Please Do Not Trash This Tree. Enter nonprofit Trees New York, which ...
WASHINGTON OUTLOOK.(efforts to develop environmental policy)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Over the last Few months, AMERICAN FORESTS has worked to bring the values and goals of our ecosystem-restoration-and-maintenance policy agenda to leaders in the new Administration and in Congress. We have met with Dave Tenny, acting undersecretary for natural resources and environment in ...
Nostalgists.(efforts to save America chestnut trees in Virginia)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Nostalgists for the American chestnut tree flocked to Washington, Virginia, this spring to buy seedlings resistant to a blight that has wiped out the species. A local Lions Club sold 500 trees in an hour. The trees were grown by the Newport, Virginia-based American Chestnut Cooperators' ...
New York City.(treats infestation of Asian long-horned beetles)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... New York City began inoculating its hardwoods this spring to try to combat further infestation of Asian long-horned beetles. The black-and-white bugs chew through bark, laying their eggs and feeding inside the tree. They have destroyed more than 5,000 trees. Chopping down infested trees ...
Third graders.(Maui school children raise money to plant trees)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... Third graders in Maui, Hawaii, overcame the odds of a 20-day teachers' strike this spring, raising enough money to plant 100 trees through AMERICAN FORESTS' "A Tree For Every Child" program. Given the strike, Linda Olsen's class at Kula ...
California's energy crisis.(tree planting program created by Los Angeles Water and Power)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... California's energy crisis has generated power for a tree-planting program, "Trees for a Green LA," created by Los Angeles Water and Power, the April issue of Forestry Source reports. The company is ...
James Montgomery Flagg.(value of poster)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001 ... James Montgomery Flagg, an illustrator known for military-recruiting posters--namely, Uncle Sam saying, "I Want You"--had a hand in recruiting forest stewards, too ....
AMERICAN FORESTS 125 YEARS OF CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP ANNUAL REPORT 2000.
Jun 22, 2001 ... On September 10, 2000, AMERICAN FORESTS marked 125 years of leadership for forest conservation. We are proud of our rich heritage as the nation's oldest nonprofit environmental organization and especially proud of our record today as a world leader in planting trees for environmental ...
Wildfire ReLeaf.(efforts to restore lands affected by wildfires)
Jun 22, 2001 ... The wildfires that raged through the West last year may have been best captured by a picture of two elk seeking refuge in a river as the fire burned out of control all around them in Montana's Bitterroot National Forest. The image seared in American consciousness the destruction caused by ...
Swamp Quest.(ecology of Bradwell Bay, Apalachicola National Forest, Florida)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Searching for big trees amid mosquitos, bear scat, and water up to your chest. A Forest Service employee smiled when I told him of my plans to hike into Bradwell Bay. The 24,600-acre wilderness area in North Florida's Apalachicola National Forest features two national ...
A Northern Forest Fairy Tale.(Randolph, New Hampshire, buys 10,000 acres of White Mountains forest to preserve it)
Jun 22, 2001; ... ONCE UPON A TIME, A TINY TOWN SOUGHT TO NURTURE A FOREST TO HAPPILY EVER AFTER. Over the next few months, the residents of little Randolph, New Hampshire, which claims a year-round population of about 350, will take possession of a sprawling 10,000-acre chunk of the state's ...
Forest INVADERS.(insects that invade hemlock trees)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Balsam wooly adelgid. Brown spruce longhorn beetle. Hemlock wooly adelgid. Red-haired pine bark beetle. Smaller Japanese cedar longhorn beetle. This roster of renegades may not be as familiar to us as the European gypsy moth (or even the Asian longhorn beetle), but they threaten our ...
Living Lightly on the Land.(efforts by various communities to clean polluted waterways)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Yon wouldn't think of the former munitions plant known as the Washington (DC) Navy Yard as a model of "environmentally sensitive development." Walk under a leaky overpass of Interstate 295 and through Gate 9, and what you see is mostly pavement. Sure, there are berms lining the ...
The Mesmerizing Southern Magnolia.
Jun 22, 2001 ... In the Deep South, the southern magnolia is queen. With its glossy evergreen leaves and big, fragrant white blossoms, this native beauty is ubiquitous in southern landscapes-evoking both the melancholy of Faulkner and the melodrama of "Gone With The Wind." From Old South to New ...
Oratorio of an Oxygen Farmer.(opera singer Ara Berberian to turn his private forest into a public preserve)(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001; ... A veteran of the Metropolitan Opera takes on a new role, singing the praises of his private urban forest, hoping to turn it into a public preserve. Singing in the shower is for amateurs; Ara Berberian prefers the woods--more oxygen from all those leaves. And given his 20 years ...