It is with a heavy heart that we learned about the passing of Wangari Muta Maathai. Professor Maathai suggested to them that planting trees might be an answer. The trees would provide wood for cooking, fodder for livestock, and material for fencing; they would protect watersheds and stabilize the soil, improving agriculture. This was the beginning of the Green Belt ...
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This September, Common Vision, the traveling tree-planting troupe famous for turning city schoolyards into urban orchards is going rural on a special fall tour that will plant hundreds of fruit trees in Mendocino County, Shasta County, Nevada City, and Chico. Now in its 8th year on the road, Fruit Tree Tour’s veggie oil-powered caravan–the largest known one of its kind–will roll into ...
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The Society of Municipal Arborists, in conjunction with the USDA Forest Service Urban & Community ForestryProgram and the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, is launching a municipal forestry internship program for under-graduate college students interested in a career in Municipal Arboriculture.  The primary objective of thisprogram is to provide a hands-on experience alongside practicing professionals who will serve as mentors over ...
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