Help for California's forests.Fans of Marie Claire Marie Claire is a monthly woman’s magazine conceived in France but also distributed in other countries with editions specific to them and in their languages. While each country shares its own special voice with its audience, the United States edition focuses on women magazine read an article on actress Sarah Michelle Gellar's efforts to help wildfire victims in California, then logged on by the thousands to purchase a zirconia butterfly necklace that aided AMERICAN FORESTS' California Wildfire ReLeaf campaign. Each $29.95 necklace sold planted more than 15 trees, thanks to a tree-for-tree match by the U.S. Forest Service. As of October, necklace sales among magazine readers had netted more than $32,000 for tree planting in areas scorched scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. by devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. fires in 2003. California's 2003 wildfires killed 20 people, displaced more than 2,000 and devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. the area's forests. AMERICAN FORESTS launched California Wildfire ReLeaf in response to phone calls and e-mails from across the country. The limited edition necklace proved popular with more than Marie Claire's 54,000 readers. Publicity for the necklace and the worthy cause it benefits resulted in a total of nearly $225,000 in contributions. Thousands of acres still need to be reforested. To learn more about Wildfire ReLeaf or to donate directly, visit www.americanforests.org. To purchase the necklace to benefit California Wildfire ReLeaf, visit http://www.netaya.com or call 800/636-6884 (cite style #NP2SJN SJN Scottsdale Job Network (Scottsdale, AZ) SJN St. John Neumann 51ZMC ZMC Zygomaticomaxillary Complex ZMC Zamboanga Minerals Corporation ). As part of its California Wildfire ReLeaf campaign, AMERICAN FORESTS is currently accepting proposals for tree planting on fire-damaged public land in southern California. For more information, contact AMERICAN FORESTS at 202/737-1944. |
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