How to Build A Greener City.Some 800 people came to Seattle for AMERICAN FORESTS' 1999 National Urban Forest Conference, August 31-September 3. There 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 unveiled its 5-step plan to fight sprawl with tree-smart development and released its Regional Ecosystem Analysis showing a whopping 92 percent of Seattle as sparsely forested. Conference goers took the tree-planting imperative to heart. A crowd turned out at the Space Needle Noun 1. Space Needle - a tower 605 feet tall in Seattle; a tourist attraction Seattle - a major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade to plant five gingko gingko, n Latin name: Gingko biloba; parts used: leaves; uses: vascular insufficiency, antioxidant, circulation, cognitive enhancement, depression, headaches, tinnitus, altitude sickness, intermittent claudication; precautions: patients with trees. Including the 2.5 millionth tree sponsored by Eddie Bauer Eddie Bauer (NASDAQ: EBHI) is a clothing store chain. Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, and a subsidiary of Eddie Bauer Holdings (formerly Spiegel, Inc.), the company was founded in Seattle in 1920 as "Eddie Bauer's Sport Shop" by its namesake, Eddie Bauer (1899 – for AMERICAN FORESTS' Global ReLeaf campaign. In his keynote speech. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman announced USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. will plant 100 of AMERICAN FORESTS' Famous & Historic Trees in each state capital and Washington, DC, to create Millennium Groves that "reflect the unique character" of each state. King County Executive Ron Sims announced a partnership with AMERICAN FORESTS, Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, and others to plant 200,000 trees in 2000 along the I-90 corridor. The Global ReLeaf hanquet capped the conference with awards for environmental excellence and achievement presented to Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, Garden.com, Eddie Bauer, and American Express, among others. |
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