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ARRI IN THE NEWS

SEPTEMBER 2009
 UN Billion Tree campaign passes seven billion trees planted [September 21, 2009]
Support reforestation proposal [September 20, 2009]
 A massive idea to reforest Appalachian mine sites [September 15, 2009]
Student Pen Pals Serve as Ambassadors to an Imperiled Bird [September 14, 2009]
 County asks residents to honor Sept. 11 heroes by volunteering [September 10,2009]
 Project turns former mines into habitat for bees [September 5, 2009]

AUGUST 2009
 Green Forest Works for Appalachia: A Win-Win-Win for Jobs, Forests, and Birds [August 31, 2009]
A watershed for economic security [August 31, 2009]
Building a base for honeybees [August 30, 2009]
Group seeks stimulus money to reforest Appalachia [August 19, 2009]
Reforestation Taking Root in Projects Around the World [August 19, 2009]
Mr. Obama considering Appalachian reforestation idea [August 17, 2009]
Appalachian plan: Plant 125 million trees [August 16, 2009]
Group Wants Massive Program to Reforest Appalachian Mine Sites [August 16, 2009]
Obama administration mulls reforestation program [August 13, 2009]
Reforesting Kentucky [August 13, 2009]
Members of ACF work to restore chestnut trees to Ohio forests [August 7, 2009]
Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative Conference [August 6, 2009]
Conference to focus on reforestation after surface mining [August 3, 2009]

JULY 2009
 Planting of trees HTML | PDF [July 14, 2009]
 Local non-profit takes part in United We Serve Campaign  HTML[July 2, 2009]
 American chestnut's revival may combat climate change  HTML| PDF[July 1, 2009]

JUNE 2009
 Environmental Group, coal company team up to to reclaim surface mine site HTML [June 25, 2009]

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MAY 2009
 Dominion planting good will with trees for students [May 28, 2009]
 Miscanthus for biofuels sprouts up in Kentucky HTML  PDF [May 22, 2009]
 American chestnut seedlings test blight resistance HTML  PDF [May 18, 2009]
BARK group receives award HTML [May 18, 2009]
Emerald Ash borer and Mountaintop reclamation HTML [May 10, 2009]
Sourwood, An experiment in Apiforestation HTML [Spring 2009, KEEC Land, Air and Water]
 Students reclaim coal land HTML Video [May 7, 2009]
 Replanting coal lands HTML  Word [May 2, 2009]

APRIL 2009
 Coal land to transform into hardwood forest HTML |Video [April 29, 2009]
 The Forestry Reclamation Approach in Appalachia HTML [Canadian Reclamation, April 2009]
 LWF Forum shows ways to shrink carbon Big Foot HTML | PDF [April 24, 2009]
International Coal Group Celebrates Arbor Day with Webster County Students [April 23, 2009]
 Steps toward a greener world HTML [April 23, 2009]
Growing a forest: Volunteers plant up to 3,000 trees HTML [April 20, 2009]
Volunteers digging into county reforestation efforts HTML [April 19, 2009]
 Efforts to reforest Appalachia praised  [April 19, 2009]
 Students plant seeds of reclamation HTML [April 16, 2009]
Earth Policy Institute: Protecting and restoring forests [April 14, 2009]
 Company honored for mine land reclamation  HTML [April 14, 2009]
 Mining area is seeing green HTML [April 13, 2008]
 Restoring Jockey Hollow: Mined area getting new life  PDF [April 13, 2009]
 Planting chestnuts on mine land fights blight HTML| PDF [April 12, 2009]
 Hundreds of 6th graders plant trees for Arbor Day  PDF [April 9, 2009]
 Eliminating our carbon footprint one tree at a time HTML | PDF [April 7, 2009]
 American chestnut trees planted on National Forest in Ohio HTML [April 6, 2009]
 Tree planting on tap today HTML |  PDF [April 3, 3009]
 1000 trees to be planted at a strip mine HTML [April 3, 2009]
 Woodlands award recognizes best in Mine Land Reclamation PDF [Forestry Source - April 2009]

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MARCH 2009
 AEP and Fiserv team up to save customers money and plant trees HTML [March 30, 2009]
Cleaning up Big Coal's Mess, Initiative seeks to reforest Appalachia's mine-scalped mountain tops PDF [March 29, 2009]
VA, KY-sixth graders to plant trees on mined lands HTML [March 29, 2009]
Reforestation of US mountaintop mine sites gets UN endorsement  PDF [March 28, 2009]
Volunteers to plant trees in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains for pre-Arbor Day celebration [March 27, 2009]
Reforesting former Appalachian mining sites HTML [March 27, 2009]
United Nations lauds effort to revitalize region's Mountains PDF [March 27, 2009]
 UN lauds effort to reforest Appalachia's mountains HTML| PDF [March 27, 2009]
 Old mine site gets 4000 trees. Coal companies embrace plan to reforest [March 25, 2009]
 Group promotes mine land reforestation PDF | Word [March 20, 2009]
Old mine site getting new lease on life PDF  [March 13, 2009]
Boone County tree planting project ramping up HTML | PDF [March 12, 2009]
Project fosters unlikely alliance PDF | Word [March 6, 2009]
Tree Planting project has threefold purpose HTML | Word | PDF [March 5, 2009]
Volunteers to plant 800 trees PDF |HTML [March 3, 2009]

FEBRUARY 2009
 New chestnut trees may reclaim forests HTML [February 23, 2009]
International Coal Group Operations Receive Six Safety and Reclamation Awards HTML [February 23, 2009]

JANUARY 2009
 100 urged to plant a tree, or 10 HTML| PDF [January 19, 2009]

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