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i work for the united states forest service as a public affairs specialist and cover many conservations issues from climate change to wildfire prevention. in addition to my regular assignments, i am the national public affairs manager for smokey bear. i write frequent blogs and tweet #mrclimatechange on the above mentioned areas. i live in dc with my life-partner, tom fulton.

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resurrecting a legendary giant of the forest that can absorb nearly every american’s carbon footprint

the american chestnut tree was once the dominate “sequoia” of the eastern us. but, tragically, the great tree succumbed to a fungus (or blight) that wiped out 99.9 percent of them. billions of these giants were gone from the landscape in less than fifty years. in fact, their impact on the forest was so dramatic... keep reading

resurrecting a legendary giant of the forest that can absorb nearly every american’s carbon footprint

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resurrecting a legendary giant of the forest that can absorb nearly every american's carbon footprint
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