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Alabama Forestry Commission and Alabama Urban Forestry Association

Website: http://www.americangrove.org/al
Location: Alabama
Members: 30
Latest Activity: May 20, 2012

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The Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign has had great success for two years. The Alabama Forestry Commission and Arbor Day Foundation along with support from members and other donors across the country have raised more than $75,000 to replace trees lost due to the April 2011 tornadoes.

While the cleanup and rebuilding will continue for years to come, people can help the healing process now. Anyone can help with an online donation at www.arborday.org/alabama. For every dollar donated, the Arbor Day Foundation will deliver a tree to an Alabama resident affected by the April tornadoes.

The Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign aims to help families restore their tree lined homes and neighborhoods. The new trees bring beauty, healing, and hope. With people's support to the Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign, the tree-lined streets, shaded parks, and beautiful neighborhoods that have always been part of Alabama can return.

The Arbor Day Foundation will deliver trees selected to thrive in the area. Distribution of the trees to awaiting Alabama families and communities will be coordinated by the Alabama Forestry Commission in February 2014.

"The Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign is an important effort to distribute trees to Alabamians who had homes destroyed in the April tornado outbreak,” said Governor Robert Bentley. “This campaign will help restore our communities and I am appreciative to the Alabama Forestry Commission and Arbor Day Foundation for coming together on this project."

"The trees lost in the recent tornado outbreak provided millions of dollars in environmental, economic, and social benefits," said Linda Casey, the Alabama State Forester. "This campaign can go a long way toward putting our communities and surrounding areas on the path to recovery."

The Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign is an ongoing initiative in the Arbor Day Foundation's Trees for America program. Other initiatives include delivering more than 120,000 trees to Gulf Coast families who were victims of Hurricane Katrina, and replanting more than 20 million trees in national forests devastated by disease and fire.

The Arbor Day Foundation is a nonprofit conservation and education organization with more than one million members nationwide. More information about the Foundation and its conservation programs can be found at www.arborday.org.

The Alabama Forestry Commission is a state agency committed to protecting, conserving, and increasing Alabama’s forest resource. For more information, visit www.forestry.alabama.gov.

For more information, contact:

Clifford Hawkins, Alabama Forestry Commission
clifford.hawkins@forestry.alabama.gov

(334) 240-9306

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Comment by Susan Di Biase on March 3, 2012 at 9:26am: Thanks to Neil and Matt for visiting JSU to present the Tree Campus USA Award! I'm attaching the news story with the winning Arbor Day poems.
http://www.chanticleeronline.com/The_Chanticleer/Front_Page.html

Comment by Neil Letson on February 10, 2012 at 10:47am: Susan---Matt McCollough, Cliff Hawkins and I will be there and are looking forward to the event.

Comment by Susan Di Biase on February 10, 2012 at 10:24am: We are looking forward to celebrating Jacksonville State University becoming a Tree Campus USA! The Arbor Day Celebration will be Thursday, February 23 at 3:30 pm on the JSU campus. Three oak trees will be planted near the Theron Montgomery Student Commons building on Pelham Road (Hwy. 21). Y'all come join us!

Comment by Matthew Mccollough on June 28, 2011 at 11:00am: If you know of a City or Town that was in the path of the April 2011 tornadoes and they have not been contacted about replanting efforts, please feel free to have them email, call, or post here on the Grove.

The Alabama Forestry Commission has several ideas on how to replant the tornado damaged areas and will be announcing soon what we have in mind.

Please stay tuned in to the Grove and the AFC's website for the latest ideas.

Comment by Administrator on November 8, 2010 at 10:29am: We need your help! Draft a short blog post about a tree you've planted by Nov. 14 and you could win a donation for AUFA. Click here for more details: http://thegrove.americangrove.org/profiles/blogs/the-groves-tree-pl...

Comment by Michelle Cole on August 18, 2010 at 1:24pm: Exploring Changing Roles Within Urban and Community Forestry
Thursday, August 26, 2010
12:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Auburn University Student Center
Auburn, Alabama

This program has been approved for 4 hours of category 1 CFE credit. For more information and to register for this program, go to: http://www.aces.edu/forestry/
As always, thank you for your interest in, and support of our programs.

Comment by Gary Ickes on July 20, 2010 at 10:56am: Hello Everyone

Michelle Cole told me about this site. I am the current president of Alabama Urban Forestry Association. We will be having our annual conference in October. I will try to have the information posted soon on this site. If you are interested in learning more please visit http://www.aufa.com

Comment by Neil Letson on July 13, 2010 at 8:42am: Susan, Yes. Matt will contact you to make arrangements.

Comment by Susan Di Biase on July 13, 2010 at 1:11am: Neil, could Matt take the tree to my dad in Auburn? My dad is coming up to see me Friday morning. He is a volunteer at the Forest Preserve. If Matt is not coming by Auburn this week, I can get it from my dad later. I am trying to arrange a planting that will coordinate with Black History Month and Arbor Day in February.

Comment by Neil Letson on July 12, 2010 at 3:58pm: Susan, I'm going to arrange with Matt McCollough to bring the tree to Auburn. What day and time do you want to pick it up?

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