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Article: A legend lives on in the salty West.(Profile)(Richard St. Barbe Baker's influence on environmental organizations)
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- June 1, 2007
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In 1922, young forester Richard St Barbe Baker, working for the British Colonial Office in Kenya, persuaded thousands of Kikuyu tribesmen to undertake a massive tree-planting program to replace the forests they had destroyed.
Eighty-five years on, the vision of that young Englishman is being kept alive through Men of the Trees, a global network of volunteer tree-planting groups.
The historic Kenyan tree-planting success was the first of many inspired by St Barbe Baker during his long life (see box).
In fact, St Barbe Baker may have been responsible for the planting of more trees than any other person in history. He successfully campaigned to ...