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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
 and H.E. Butt Grocery Stores of San Antonio, Texas “San Antonio” redirects here. For other uses, see San Antonio (disambiguation).
San Antonio is the second most populous city in Texas, the third most populous metropolitan area in Texas, and is the seventh most populous city in the United States. As of the 2006 U.S.
, have entered into an agreement to help HEB HEB Hebrew
HEB Hurst-Euless-Bedford (Texas)
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HEB Hindu Endowments Board (Singapore)
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HEB High-Energy Beam
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 celebrate its 100 years of service to communities in Texas and Mexico. Under the agreement, AMERICAN FORESTS will work with HEB to introduce Living Classrooms, its environmental education and tree planting program, to 40 communities in Texas as well as provide teacher training and lesson plans to implement AMERICAN FORESTS' CITYgreen education program in schools designated by the company. In addition, HEB and AMERICAN FORESTS will plant trees affiliated with Texas history in HEB communities to help the grocery store chain celebrate its commitment to communities throughout its marketing area.

Also, AMERICAN FORESTS wants to thank IKEA IKEA Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd (Swedish home furnishings retailer founder's initials and location)  stores in Maryland; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania “Pittsburgh” redirects here. For the region, see Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area.

Pittsburgh (pronounced IPA: /ˈpɪtsbɚg/) is the second largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
; and the Washington, DC, metro area for contributing a portion of proceeds from a plant sale to AMERICAN FORESTS to plant trees in damaged forest ecosystems. The plant sale resulted in $34,508 to plant a corresponding number of trees.
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Title Annotation:News from the World of Trees; reforestation programs
Publication:American Forests
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 22, 2004
Words:162
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