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Article: PROGRAM PROFILE - NWF Helps Revitalize Urban Communities.(Building Bridges for Sustainable Communities program)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- National Wildlife
- Article date:
- February 1, 2002
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AS THE GREATER DETROIT area launches a major initiative to create more natural areas within the city, NWF's Great Lakes Natural Resource Center(r) is playing a key role in encouraging the use of natural plantings to provide wildlife habitat and in finding ways to link green areas with walkways, bike paths and schoolyard habitats.
It's all part of NWF's Building Bridges for Sustainable Communities Program, which helps revitalize inner-city neighborhoods in several cities of the upper Midwest.
"There's a direct link between the health of our urban neighborhoods and preservation of natural habitat in undeveloped areas," says Guy Williams, NWF's Urban ...