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<br /> COMMON GROUND VOL. 12 NO . 1 NOVEMBER/ DECEMBER 2000
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<br /> Oregonian Wins Conservation Award Kodak Greenway
<br /> ® A Portland , Ore . , native who spearheaded gorge . She has helped establish hiking and Grantees
<br /> the move to designate the Columbia Gorge biking paths on the scenic highway along the Choccolocco Creek W'shed
<br /> as the nation ' s first national scenic area has gorge . Oregon plans to create hiking trails on Conservancy District., Ala .
<br /> received the American Land Conservation the remainin sections of the centur old K Land r Heritage
<br /> g Y Land Trust, Alaska
<br /> Award and a $ 50 , 000 grant from the Catto highway . Russell also helped the Columbia Discovery Coast G 'ways Land
<br /> Charitable Foundation . Land Trust to protect habitat and land in Trust, British Columbia
<br /> partnership with the communities of the Co - Back country Land Trust, Calif.
<br /> NancyRussell, who founded Friends of lumbia River region . Annie & Mary
<br /> g . Rail-Trail, Calif.
<br /> the Columbia Gorge in 1980, has volun- Russell received the award Oct . 21 in Trees, Water & People, Colo .
<br /> teered 40 to 60 hours a week for two decades Portland , Ore . , at the Land Trust Alliance ' s Washington Area Bicyclist
<br /> to protect the gorge . In partnership with National Land Trust Rally . " Nancy Russell Assoc., D . C .
<br /> Delaware Nature Society, Del .
<br /> public agencies , private landowners and has shown us that we ' re all ' river people , "' Venice Area Beautification,
<br /> nonprofit groups, she has focused attention said Charles Jordan, a member of the board Fla .
<br /> on the gorge through hundreds of trips, of The Conservation Fund and Director of Sandtown Homeowners '
<br /> community presentations and appearances Parks and Recreation in Portland . " All of us River Action, Iowa
<br /> at meetings . The 292 ,500- acre scenic area , benefit from her accomplishments . " Wood River LT, Idaho
<br /> which is 85 miles long, forms part of the bor- The Fund administers the award pro- Living Lands & Waters
<br /> der between Oregon and Washington . gram, now in its fifth year . The award is the Restoration
<br /> Wapehani Girll Scout
<br /> Russell and her husband created a pub - largest in the nation honoring individual vol- Council, Ind .
<br /> lic hiking trail on their property in the unteer efforts in land conservation . Hanover Open Space
<br /> Committee, Mass .
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<br /> Adkins Arboretum, Md .
<br /> Town of Westernport, Md .
<br /> Friends of the Kennebec
<br /> Kodak Awards Greenway Grants River Rail Trail, Maine
<br /> Downriver Greenway
<br /> Initiative, Mich.
<br /> ® Eastman Kodak Co . , the National Geo - Fund Act of 1965 . In New York, he also Appleton Project, Minn.
<br /> graphic Society and The Conservation Fund served as the head of the first state environ- Friends of the Miss .
<br /> have honored 38 greenway groups and four mental department . His leadership as a River, Minn .
<br /> Corvallis
<br /> national leaders for their work in promoting chairman of the President' s Advisory P edmontCivic Land Club, Mont.
<br /> greenways and preserving open space . Committee on Environmental Quality pro - Conservancy, N. C.
<br /> duced a report that called for a national net- Clay county communities
<br /> The greenway grants program, now in work of greenways .
<br /> Revitalization Assoc. , N . C .
<br /> its eighth year thanks to funding from • The Pennsylvania Environmental LiNe ltlon Regional Hospital,
<br /> Kodak, awarded grants up to $ 2 ,500 on Sept . Council helped establish the Pennsylvania Cerrillos Hills Park Coalition,
<br /> 12 to 38 nonprofit groups in 30 states (see list Greenways Partnership Commission and the N.M .
<br /> at right) . The grants , presented at the Na - Southeastern Pennsylvania GreenSpace Thousand Islands LT, N .Y .
<br /> Trenton Conservation
<br /> tional Geographic Society in Washington, Alliance . The council also worked for the Advisory Council, N .Y .
<br /> D . C . , provide seed funding to stimulate the successful passage of the Growing Greener Floral Park Conservation
<br /> planning and design of greenways, esti- Initiative—a 5 -year, $ 645 million program to Society, N. Y .
<br /> mated to number more than 3 , 000 in the protect open ace and farmland, restore riv- River 's Bend Parks Corp .,
<br /> P P P Ohio
<br /> United States . ers and rehabilitate state parks and forests . Rails-To-Trails of Wayne
<br /> In addition to the community grants, • Bridgestone / Firestone Inc . was recog- County, Ohio
<br /> the three groups presented an outstanding nized for its donation of more than 10 ,000 Bear Creek Greenway
<br /> Foundation, Ore.
<br /> achievement award to Henry Diamond, a acres on the Cumberland Plateau to the state French Creek Recreation
<br /> long- time environmental leader and attor- of Tennessee to create a landscape - scale Trails, Pa .
<br /> ney in Washington, D . C . The groups also greenway now linked to other public land Legacy Land Trust, Texas
<br /> recognized the Pennsylvania Environmental holdings . The protection of the waterfalls , Virginia Trails,Tree
<br /> g Y g P Page County Tree Board, Va .
<br /> Council, Bridgestone / Firestone Inc . and the wildlife habitat and miles of unbroken forest Mad River Path Assoc ., Vt.
<br /> South Carolina Department of Natural Re- within the property helped mark the Land Trust of Eastern
<br /> sources for their efforts to create a national company' s 100th anniversary . Panhandle, W . Va .
<br /> network of greenways and trails . • The South Carolina Department of
<br /> • Diamond, a partner with Beveridge & Natural Resources recently led efforts to pro-
<br /> Diamond, is considered to be one of the fa- tect more than 40,000 acres of environmen-
<br /> thers of the green space movement in the tally and ecologically significant land in the
<br /> U . S . He played a central role in the process Jocassee Gorge area in the western part of the
<br /> that led to the enactment of the Wilderness state , contributing to one of the largest pro-
<br /> Act and the Land and Water Conservation tected areas in the Southeast . 3
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