An Olympic effort for Sarajevo. (Clippings).Thanks to an anonymous 25,000-tree pledge, contributions to AMERICAN FORESTS' Global Releaf Sarajevo tree-planting campaign will be doubled, tree-for-tree through October 1. AMERICAN FORESTS' goal is to double the pledge so that 50,000 trees can be planted on 10 slopes currently being readied for autumn planting. The 1984 giant slalom giant slalom n. A downhill skiing race in which participants must pass between pairs of gates set along a course that is larger and often steeper than a slalom course. Olympic gold Olympic Gold is the official video game of the XXV Olympic Summer Games, hosted by Barcelona, Spain in 1992. It was released for the Sega consoles, Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System, and Sega's handheld, Game Gear. medalist, Debbie Armstong, is serving as spokesperson for Global ReLeaf Sarajevo. She will return to the city where she earned her gold medal gold medal traditional first prize. [Western Cult: Misc.] See : Prize this fall to help plant the first of 50,000 trees in October. The Global ReLeaf campaign aims to plant 300,000 hillside trees and 3,000 street trees to reforest re·for·est tr.v. re·for·est·ed, re·for·est·ing, re·for·ests To replant (an area) with forest cover. re denuded slopes in and around the city. While receiving an award at the Far West Ski Council conference in Reno, Nevada, this spring, Armstrong encouraged Council members to support Global ReLeaf Sarajevo. "I want to give something back to the people and the city who were so wonderful to me," said Armstrong. "But to avoid an environmental crisis we must act quickly, so we are beginning with those I know best: the ski community." At the end of the speech, ski clubs from San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Modesto, San Francisco, and Sacramento presented Armstrong with several hundred dollars in impromptu contributions. "Global ReLeaf Sarajevo is having a positive impact on the community and is helping to return the city's tree canopy," says Karen Fedor, director of AMERICAN FORESTS' Global ReLeaf Center. "But the potential damage from future landslides is astronomical. A lot more work needs to be done." Global ReLeaf Sarajevo has planted more than 20,000 coniferous con·i·fer n. Any of various mostly needle-leaved or scale-leaved, chiefly evergreen, cone-bearing gymnospermous trees or shrubs such as pines, spruces, and firs. and deciduous trees, but tens of thousands more trees and shrubs are needed. During the siege of Sarajevo The Siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege in the history of modern warfare, lasting from April 5 1992 to February 29 1996. It was fought during the Bosnian War between the forces of the Bosnian government, who had declared independence from Yugoslavia, and the Yugoslav in the early 1990s, citizens cut trees and tree roots for cooking and heating fuel, destroying most of the city's urban and hillside forests. The lack of trees on hillsides today is causing erosion and lands-slides that, if not curtailed, will mean an estimated $100 million in damage to buildings and infrastructure. The war destroyed nearly all of Sarajevo's Olympic venues, but residents are now rebuilding the city and have announced a campaign bid for the 2010 Games. The U.S. Ski Team, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympics (SLOC SLOC Source Lines Of Code SLOC Software Lines of Code SLOC Sea Lines of Communication SLOC Salt Lake Olympic Committee SLOC sea line of communications (US DoD) SLOC Skilled Level of Care SLOC Strategic Lanes of Communication ), State Department representatives, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have all cooperated in developing AMERICAN FORESTS' Global ReLeaf Sarajevo campaign. |
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