AMERICAN FORESTS 1999 ANNUAL REPORT.As we enter our 125th year, AMERICAN FORESTS American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens remains true to the mission established when the organization was chartered in Chicago in 1875: helping people improve the environment with trees and forests. We are proud of our role as the citizen voice of forest conservation, and we continually strive to combine new technology with old-fashioned volunteerism as we help cities and rural areas understand the value of trees' environmental, social, and economic benefits. Our members are scientists, activists, landowners, city planners, engineers, and homeowners. Join us in our goal of giving voice to the trees and forests, in planting 20 million trees for the new millennium, and in providing information through our quarterly magazine, American Forests, and our website, www.americanforests.org. FOREST POLICY CENTER Our policy center helps people understand and strengthen the links between healthy forests and vital communities. The Forest Policy Center developed AMERICAN FORESTS' National Policy Agenda for Ecosystem Restoration Humans depend greatly on ecosystem services. These services vary greatly and include such things as erosion control, water and air purification, food, recreation, a list that could go on endlessly. and Maintenance, which defines our mission. Teaming with federal agencies and state foresters, we provided information on these issues to Congress through hearings, testimony, and congressional tours. Working with community-based groups we supported federal programs such as urban and community forestry, economic action programs, and forest legacy, and we supported their inclusion in the Land and Water Conservation Fund The United States' Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) is a Federal program that was established by Act of Congress in 1965. The Act designated that a portion of receipts from offshore oil and gas leases[1] , in support of the Clinton administration's Legacy Initiative. Support came from the Ford Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the Forest Service and National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council, the Bureau of Land Management, and state forestry agencies. URBAN FOREST CENTER Our urban center helps people appreciate the value of natural resources in their cities and towns. The Urban Forest Center conducted a regional analysis of the Chesapeake Bay and the areas within Fairfax County, Virginia Fairfax County is a county in Northern Virginia, in the United States. As of 2005, the estimated population of the county is 1,041,200;[1] making it by far the most populous jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and larger than seven states. , and Washington, DC. We have continued our work in Seattle and Bellevue, Washington; Atlanta; Canton, Ohio; and Chattanooga. Supporters of these analyses included the U.S. Forest Service and state forestry agencies, the Turner Foundation and Jackson Foundation, nonprofit partners like the Georgia Conservancy, and companies such as ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. , Emerge, and ERDAS ERDAS Earth Resources Data Analysis System ERDAS Eastern Range Dispersion Assessment System . Our National Urban Forest Conference in Seattle was a great success with more than 800 attendees, and the Secretary of Agriculture gave the keynote speech. We debuted a new video and enjoyed the sponsorship of the U.S. Forest Service. Davey Tree, Eddie Bauer, and ESRI. Davey doubled its annual sponsorship, Eddie Bauer celebrated its 2.5 millionth tree and announced a new goal of another 2.5 million trees. ESRI sponsored production costs for the video and donated $50,000 in products. We received additional support from Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, Home Deport de·port tr.v. de·port·ed, de·port·ing, de·ports 1. To expel from a country. See Synonyms at banish. 2. To behave or conduct (oneself) in a given manner; comport. , and Puget Sound Energy Puget Sound Energy (PSE) is an energy company providing electrical power and natural gas in the Puget Sound region of the northwest United States. It serves electrical power to over 1 million customers in Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Kittitas, Pierce, Skagit, Thurston, and . We announced our 5-Point Plan for Tree Smart Development with the support of Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , then planted trees in five cities with the support of Eddie Bauer and American Express. We also released version 3.0 of our CITYgreen software. GLOBAL RELEAF CENTER Global ReLeaf helps people improve the environment by planting trees. Global ReLeaf cost-share grants to local partners support environmentally significant, community-based projects that plant native trees to restore damaged forest ecosystems on public lands. We planted 2.6 million trees in 1999, putting us halfway to our goal of 20 million trees for the new millennium. The Global ReLeaf Fund also awarded $140,000 in grants for urban and international tree-planting projects, including 23,800 trees in 21 urban projects with Eddie Bauer, Ikea, and Balance Bar in San Francisco, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Vancouver, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, and Seattle. With Briggs & Stratton, Kelloggs, Larsen-Juhl, and ExxonMobil, 198,000 trees were planted in Mexico, Cambodia, Ukraine, and Gambia, including 100,000 trees planted for tiger habitat in Russia with ExxonMobil. Tree plantings held in conjunction with specialty retailer Eddie Bauer and community residents honored the 100th anniversary of the store founder's birth. Additional supp ort of $50,000 from American Express helped fund these projects. New Global ReLeaf Forests supporters included Zurich Kemper Life, Bell South, Wells Fargo, Balance Bar, Keystone Energy, Earthbound earth·bound also earth-bound adj. 1. Fastened in or to the soil: earthbound roots. 2. a. Farm, SCI (Scalable Coherent Interface) An IEEE standard for a high-speed bus that uses wire or fiber-optic cable. It can transfer data up to 1GBytes/sec. (hardware) SCI - 1. Scalable Coherent Interface. 2. UART. , Ikea, Shaklee Corporation, and Fleet Bank. New foundation support came from the Spring Creek, Jackson, McIntosh, and Cafritz foundations. Communications efforts focused on the total renovation of our world wide web site in partnership with sponsor Garden.com; our new e-commerce secure site keeps us on the cutting edge of this technology. Our quarterly magazine debuted a new look that is more reader friendly with full color throughout. Our public service advertisements continue to appear in national magazines. Our Famous & Historic Trees program conducted a national Johnny Appleseed tour in the spring, bringing heightened recognition of the program in the media and prompting best-ever sales. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman announced the USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. would donate a gift of 100 Famous & Historic Trees to every state and territory. |
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