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COMMON GROUND VOL. 13 NO. 3 JULY- SEPTEMBER 2002 Harlan Kredit 's students -2,000 to date —have built and operated a salmon hatchery for 23 years. *Xl 'NaLONIHSVM Et,6F. 'ON .LIINSHd (I IVd ROV.LSOd 'S'1] MOIIAO id-NON International Paper- Awards $10,000 Grants - - " A school teacher in Washington state with a passion for environmental education and the director of a land conservation group in New Jersey have received 2002 En- vironmental Excellence Awards from Inter- national Paper and The Conservation Fund. The awards, accompanied by $10,000 grants from the International Paper Com- pany Foundation, were presented June 25 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on En , , tality, delivered the keynote iddress. Harlan Kredit, a hig' -: school teacher at Lynden Christian School in Lynden, Wash., won the International Paper Environmental Education Award. Formerly the Gene Cartledge Award for Excellence in Environ- mental Education, the award recognizes people who have shown skill in encouraging a better understanding of the complex rela- tionship between a clean environment and a healthy economy. Kredit has developed a model environ- mental education program that is centered on long -term watershed restoration while incorporating student leadership and com- munity involvement. Kredit's students - 2,000 to date —have built and operated a salmon hatchery for 23 years. To improve salmon habitat, his students have planted more than 15,000 trees and shrubs along the riparian zone of Fishtrap Creek, the stream that borders the high school campus. His students completed stream surveys that form the basis for streamside restoration by local planning agencies. As he has for the past 17 years, Kredit will spend this summer working as a park ranger/ naturalist in Yellowstone National Park and teaching environmental education at The American Wilderness Leadership School in Wyoming. Linda Mead, director of the Delaware & Raritan Greenway in Princeton, N.J., re- ceived the International Paper Conservation Partnership Award. Formerly the Alexander Calder Conservation Award and now in its 14th year, the award honors individuals who protect habitat in the U.S. through partner- ships between business and conservation. Under Mead's leadership, the organiza- tion applied innovative techniques to protect 14 properties last year worth more than $42 million. To accomplish this, Mead built strong, effective and productive partnerships with communities, public agencies, corpora- tions and individuals. Mead also founded the Delaware River Greenway Partnership, Significant Natural Areas Protection Program and the Land Use Forum of Bucks County that resulted in a $59 million bond referendum in the south- eastern Pennsylvania community. She is a cofounder of the Delaware River Sojourn, an eight -day annual canoe trip that high- lights protection of the Delaware River thtough corporate sponsorship and partner- ship with federal, state, and local agencies. T8T8-8LZLZ JN 'HJno'do9SllIH 18 T 8 X09 Od 1d34 'd3SNOD S3d Q dIAN3 ALA 39NV'd0 2i01MWO II:)NV-S 4IAba 2dW 60ZZZ VA `uOlnutllV OZLL 9IMS � .IS luaX 'N 009L IF 0 k dit 6 id I