HERMITAGE RESTORATION BEGINS.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 the Daughters of the American Revolution Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), a Colonial patriotic society in the United States, open to women having one or more ancestors who aided the cause of the Revolution. The society was organized (1890) at Washington, D.C. ushered in a new century with a tree restoration effort at the Hermitage, home of seventh president Andrew Jackson. A 1998 tornado downed 2,000 trees at the Nashville, Tennessee “Nashville” redirects here. For other uses, see Nashville (disambiguation). Nashville is the capital and the second most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee, after Memphis. , estate. But in early November the Rachel Stockley Donelson chapter of DAR and AMERICAN FORESTS teamed with corporate sponsor Exxon (now ExxonMobil) to plant 100 Famous & Historic Trees as a Living Classroom at the site. The tree-planting event marks the beginning of an effort to replant re·plant v. To reattach an organ, limb, or other body part surgically to the original site. n. An organ, limb, or body part that has been replanted. all 2,000 trees. About 150 people attended the tree planting, which was sponsored in part by Exxon. AMERICAN FORESTS created the Living Classroom program, which provides teachers with seedlings from historically significant trees and a curriculum that teaches botany, history, and science. AMERICAN FORESTS Executive Director Deborah Gangloff applauded DAR for its efforts 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 the historic estate. "Trees have witnessed many of the great moments in American history, so we are especially proud to be working today with the DAR to rebuild the tree cover around President Jackson's home," Gangloff said. |
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