American Forests back issues from January 2003:
Letters.
Jan 01, 2003 ... BLACK SPOTS ON MAPLES? Tree Doctor: I have two maple trees on my property and both have developed big black spots on the leaves. I heard somewhere that this is a disease of some sort. Is it, and if so, is there any way to cure it? P Shaffer Via e-mail ...
Time to step up to the middle: what's the best gift we can give the environment in 2003? How about a breather? (Editorial).
Jan 01, 2003; ... A friend of mine used to say that we need people at the extremes so we can find a place to work in the middle. I've been thinking about her Words lately and wishing there were more people at work in the middle of the mess that is our environmental policy of late. The climate ...
The face of the future: the United States and Sweden share the same goals for the environment. We can learn from each other's means of getting there. (Perspectives).
Jan 01, 2003; ... Flying into Stockholm, Sweden, I could see why it's called a green and blue city. Where Lake Malaren meets the Baltic Sea lies a beautiful and spacious city filled with green space. Built across 14 islands, Stockholm gained its well-deserved reputation for forward-thinking urban planning ...
News from the world of Trees. (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003 ... KILMER PLANTS A MILESTONE "Holy Cow, Batman! This place needs some trees!" Well, OK, the conversation didn't go exactly like that, but AMERICAN FORESTS didn't say no when Hollywood leading man--and former "Batman Forever" star--Val Kilmer pitched in to help plant the ...
Protecting Seattle's landmark madrones. (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003 ... On the steep bluffs north of downtown Seattle grows an impressive array of what is arguably the Pacific Northwest's most beautiful arboreal treasures: the Pacific madrone. Also known as arbutus or madrona, these large, red-barked trees cling to the cliffs above Puget Sound like ...
WYE Oak to go home? (Clippings).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... An advisory committee looking into what to do with the remains of Maryland's national champion white oak, the Wye Oak, has decided the most fitting tribute to the fallen champ would be to put it back where it was. According to an article in the Washington Post, the committee ...
Water logged. (Clippings).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Logging always seems to engender debate, but in communities along the Ottawa River in Canada, the practice has taken on a less controversial, more environmentally sound tone. A Canadian-based company, Logs End Inc., is going underwater to recover lost timbers from abandoned ...
Partnership plans South Africa trip. (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003 ... AMERICAN FORESTS is teaming up with People to People Ambassador Programs to develop and lead annual forestry delegations to forested areas around the world. After a successful excursion to China in 2001, the two organizations are planning a trip to South Africa in November 2003. ...
Hard-working trees. (Clippings).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Armstrong Wood Products is helping plant 175,000 native hardwoods at the Bayou Bartholomew in Arkansas and an additional 25,000 hardwoods at the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. Bayou Bartholomew, the world's longest bayou, begins slightly northwest of ...
Greenspeak: Fifty Years of Environmental Muckraking & Advocacy. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Greenspeak: Fifty Years of Environmental Muckraking & Advocacy, by Michael Frame. $21.95, University of Tennessee Press, 2002 The title of this book says it all. Mike Frome has assembled more than 30 speeches he gave over the last 40 years in which he addresses just ...
Conserving Forest Biodiversity: A Comprehensive Multiscaled Approach. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Conserving Forest Biodiversity: A Comprehensive Multiscaled Approach, by David B. Lindenmayer & Jerry F. Franklin. $25, Island Press, 2002 This complex book is intended for professionals with, according to the authors, "a reasonable understanding of basic ecology, ...
Trees, Shrubs, & Vines for Attracting Birds. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Trees, Shrubs, & Vines for Attracting Birds, by Richard M. DeGraaf. 2d Ed. Revised. $19.95, University Press of New England, 2002 This revises a popular 1979 publication by DeGraaf and Witman, the first reference book to assemble a useful field handbook from ...
The New Economy of Nature. (Reviews).(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... The New Economy of Nature, by Gretchen C. Daily & Katherine Ellison. $19.95, Island Press, 2002 This book proves the claim that "conservation doesn't cost, it pays." As AMERICAN FORESTS' pioneering urban forestry work has shown, natural systems are a cost-effective ...
Society of American Foresters. (Transitions: Congratulating).
Jan 01, 2003 ... John H. Beuter, an expert in forest economics from Corvallis, Oregon, elected vice ...
National Association of State Foresters. (Transitions: Congratulating).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... James L Sledge, Mississippi's state forester, on his election ...
North American Nature Photography Association. (Transitions: Congratulating).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Photographer Gary Braasch, recently honored by the North American ...
National Wildlife Federation. (Transitions: Mourning).(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Jay D. Hair, 56, former president of the National Wildlife Federation, of bone marrow cancer. Hair ...
International Forest of Friendship. (Transitions: Mourning).(Obituary)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Pioneering aviatrix Fay Gillis Wells, 94, a White House correspondent and Hollywood writer who took her pet leopard on interviews. Among her many exploits, Wells in 1929 founded a group for American women licensed to fly. Amelia Earhart was ...
Champion International Corp. (Transitions: Stepping In).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Forest economist and former AMERICAN FORESTS board member Richard L Porterfield as an adjunct professor in the forestry department at Virginia ...
Institute of Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. (Transitions: Stepping In).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Former Secretary of Agriculture and current AMERICAN FORESTS Board member Daniel Glickman, as director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's John F ....
U.S. National Arboretum's Gold Medal Award. (Transitions: Honoring).
Jan 01, 2003 ... Former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson and her Committee for a More Beautiful Capital, the first recipients of the U.S. National Arboretum's Gold Medal Award. The efforts by Johnson and ...
Society of American Foresters' John A. Beale Memorial Award. (Transitions: Honoring).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... William C. Siegel, recipient of the Society of American Foresters' John A. Beale Memorial Award. The award ...
William Banzhaf, executive vice president and CEO of the Society of American Foresters. (Transitions: Stepping Down).
Jan 01, 2003 ... William Banzhaf, executive vice president and CEO of the Society of American Foresters, to become president of the Sustainable Forestry Board, which oversees the Sustainable Forestry Initiative ...
Trees offer solace for Arlington. (Clippings).(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Arlington County, Virginia, is planting living memorials for the victims of the September 11 attack on the Pentagon. In early December, AMERICAN FORESTs joined county officials to plant a small grove of 11 maples and oaks at a condominium a few miles from the crash site. The ...
More trees for Colorado. (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003 ... What do trees, kids, veggie meals, and an organic supermarket have in common? In Colorado, it's an effort to plant trees to educate schoolchildren and help the state recover from this year's devastating wildfires. During tree plantings at Carlos M. Cole Middle School in Denver ...
Oak disease's latest victims. (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003 ... University of California researchers recently reported that two more of the state's trees--coast redwood and Douglas-fir--are susceptible to Sudden Oak Death (SOD), a disease caused by the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. This summer scientists were testing the branches and ...
Washington outlook.
Jan 01, 2003; ... The 107th Congress closed with a flurry of activity on forest policy issues driven by concerns about wildfire management. But in the end, bigger policy questions and the political dynamics of an election year squelched attempts at bipartisan action. Forestry issues were put off for the ...
Rebuilding Daniel Boone's footsteps. (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003; ... Most park rangers cringe at the thought of construction equipment in their forests. But the staff at Tennessee's Cumberland Gap National Historical Park enthusiastically greeted backhoes and earthmovers in spring 2001 because of what their arrival signaled. The project would remove a ...
Greener San Antonio. (Clippings).(benefits of tree cover in Texas city)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Greater San Antonio is saving more than $70 million annually from its urban tree canopy, according to a new study by AMERICAN FORESTS. AMERICAN FORESTS' Urban Ecosystem Analysis (UEA) analyzed tree cover in terms of its benefits to stormwater management, air quality, and energy ...
Quest for Holy Grail. (Clippings).(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Thomas Pakenham is in search of the Holy Grail of trees. The spirit of 19th-century nature explorers lives on in the British historian, who has spent the last decade chronicling the lives of the world's most dramatic trees, many of which are in danger of destruction. Pakenham's book ...
Trees on the beach? (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003 ... Planning a winter vacation in the sun? Instead of lugging a beach umbrella, just look for a tree. Scientists at Purdue University say they may be able to assess just how much protection trees offer against harmful ultraviolet B radiation, according to an article in The Forestry Source. ...
News of note. (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003 ... * A gnat-sized insect, the psyllid Boreioglycaspis melaleucae is helping to thwart the advance of the invasive Australian melaleuca in Florida, according to the USDA's Agricultural Research Service. Some 100,000 psyllids have been released at sites around south Florida to help the ...
Drought shrivels Virginia Apple Corp. (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003 ... Mother Nature played rough with apple harvests on the East Coast this year, where a triple weather whammy of mild winter, frosty spring, and droughty summer combined to give Virginia its worst fall apple harvest in 20 years, according to the Washington Post. The article profiled ...
Battling bad beetles. (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003 ... The U.S. Department of Agriculture's task of combating the Asian long-horned beetle in New York and Chicago is incorporating the efforts of AMERICAN FORESTS' Big Tree sponsor, The Davey Tree Expert Company. More than 130,000 trees in parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island ...
Up a tree for an oak. (Clippings).
Jan 01, 2003 ... Environmentalists, children, tree sitters, and at least two celebrities have converged on Santa Clarita, California, to show their support for a 400-year-old oak threatened by a road-widening project. The 70-foot tree, known as Old Glory, stands in the way of Laing flames' plans ...
A light in the forest: an experiment to prove a point instead spawns a partnership that's returning health to Colorado's woods. (Communities).
Jan 01, 2003; ... At first, Tom Colbert says, all he wanted to do was prove a simple point: "You can cut tree s and strn do the forest some good." What began as an almost desperate experiment in Montezuma County, Colorado, has gone far beyond breathing life into the moribund local timber industry and ...
Preserving natural Florida.
Jan 01, 2003; ... It was an improbable task. Travel to the heart of north Florida's largest city and find wilderness. With maps in hand and some vague directions, I headed into Jacksonville past a skyline of tall buildings, turning before the wide St. Johns River, the area's dominant spot of nature. My ...
The heading of Los Alamos: as residents recover from 2000's devastating wildfire, trees are a symbol of all that they lost--and what they hope to restore.
Jan 01, 2003; ... As twilight fell across the peak of New Mexico's Cerro Grande mountain that May night in 2000, an ignition team for the National Park Service began setting small fires aimed at thinning the overstocked forest. But what began as a routine prescribed burn ended as a massive wildfire that ...
A champion for all seasons.
Jan 01, 2003; ... Sometime in the 16th century, a bur oak acorn sprouted in a shallow hollow on the rolling savannah of what is now called the Bluegrass Region of central Kentucky. By the time the Mayflower sailed, the young bur oak had grown large enough that it was no longer threatened with trampling by ...
The adaptable apple. (In Profile).
Jan 01, 2003; ... Come back, Johnny Appleseed. Much as we all love apples, people just don't plant apple trees in their yards as often as they did a few generations back. While we can now buy a fair number of varieties in the grocery store all year round, none taste as good as one that's ...
A hero for the ages.
Jan 01, 2003; ... One of my favorites among the historic trees whose descendents we cultivate at AMERICAN FOREST'S Historic Tree Nursery is one of the last remaining apple trees planted by John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. The tree itself is on the family farm of Richard and Phyllis Algeo of ...
A path encircling Harlandale: this San Antonio-area youth group plants an investment in the future. (Earthkeepers).
Jan 01, 2003; ... In 1996 when the Rev. Dr. Allan F. Cope began his appointment at Trinity Lutheran Church in Harlandale, Texas, be found a community badly in need of loving care. The inner-city San Antonio community was grappling with a transient population, a crumbling infrastructure, and high rates of ...