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Earth Day Event will Celebrate the Company's Commitment to Sustainability DODGEVILLE, Wis., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Forests are a natural treasure that is enjoyed throughout the United States. Since 1991, the non-profit National Forest Foundation (NFF) has worked with the U.S. Forest Service to care for the roughly 193-million acres of invaluable National Forests. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20071029/AQM053LOGO) Today, Lands' End is announcing the...
MISSOULA, Mont., July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Forest Foundation (NFF) today announced the launch of its first national public awareness campaign to encourage Americans to get involved in the enjoyment and restoration of the nation's forests and grasslands. The campaign features a public service announcement, which will make its national primetime premiere on Discovery Communications' Destination America network at 8:00 pm ET on Monday, July 16. In a PSA created by...
MILPITAS, Calif., April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and professional services, today announced its partnership with the National Forest Foundation (NFF). As a part of the effort to restore National Forests and Grasslands, ABBYY will donate to the NFF's tree-planting program with every trial download of ABBYY FineReader 11. Together, ABBYY and the NFF will help to restore Idaho's Nez Perce...
KOPING, Sweden, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Swedish Bed manufacturer Hastens has launched a new initiative for the spring for which the company will make a donation to the National Forest Foundation (NFF) for each and every bed sold in the United States during the company's "Support Your Sleep and Our Natural Resources" campaign, March 15 - April 30. The NFF will plant at least one native tree for each dollar donated by Hastens. (Photo:...
Officials in Los Angeles County have launched an effort to restore tens of thousands of acres of severely charred wooded areas in the Angeles National Forest, an area that had the largest fire in that county's history after an arsonist set it ablaze two years ago. The National Forest Foundation (NFF) and local and federal agency officials Friday announced a five-year plan to replant 3 million trees on 10,000 acres, remove invasive plants and restore the habitat on 40,000 more acres in the Big...
ORLANDO, Fla., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company, LLC), operator of the world's first pallet rental service providing all-plastic pallets with embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, announced today that it has funded the planting of 200,000 new trees in the Deschutes National Forest in central Oregon, an area in serious need of reforestation. iGPS' funding is one element of its unique partnership with the National Forest Foundation (NFF)...
MADISON, Va., Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Plow & Hearth® Campaign to Reforest America®, a yearlong reforestation effort launched by the company last October has reached its goal of donating one million trees to be planted in locations across the country. One year ago, associates at Plow & Hearth launched the program by planting 50 trees along the drive to its corporate headquarters in Madison, VA. During an event held last week, Plow & Hearth President, Tim...
DENVER, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today, United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced a collaborative conservation partnership - "Treasured Landscapes: The Hayman Restoration Partnership - Working Together for Healthy Forests and Clean Water" - between Vail Resorts, the National Forest Foundation (NFF) and the USDA Forest Service, which will be one of the most comprehensive forest health and watershed public-private partnership post-fire restoration projects in the...
Unique partnership between operator of world's first all-plastic rental service with embedded RFID tags and National Forest Foundation helps restore large areas of San Bernardino National Forest ORLANDO, Fla., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC), operator of the world's first all-plastic pallet rental service with embedded RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, announced today that as a result of its contributions to the National Forest...
iGPS contributions will result in the planting of over 100,000 new seedlings to further efforts to restore national forests SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC), operator of the world's first all-plastic pallet pool with embedded RFID tags, has kicked off its partnership with the National Forest Foundation (NFF) with a ceremonial tree planting in the San Bernardino National Forest. On November 17, representatives of the...
