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During 2000 World Stewardship Institute's BioDiversity Program is initiating a
new program to invite writers and publishers to become involved in reforestation
efforts.
The Writers and Publishers Reforestation Project focuses on the idea that the publishing industry needs to replenish the essential resources it uses whenever possible. A small but growing number of individual novelists, poets, essayists, non-fiction and environmental writers have asked their publishers to print a brief statement acknowledging their support of reforestation and their willingness to devote a small portion of their royalties to reforestation. This project will provide a simple way for both writers and publishers to effectively donate a small portion of their royalties to reforestation either through World Stewardship Institute’s BioDiversity Program or affiliated organizations dedicated to replanting forest lands. Our hope is that TheWriters and Publishers Reforestation Project logo displayed above will be proudly displayed and increasingly recognizable in contemporary books and journals. If you are a writer, publisher or connected to the publishing industry, please join us. 
Contact: THE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS REFORESTATION PROJECT c/oBioDiversity Program © World Stewardship Institute, 409 Mendocino Ave., Suite A Santa Rosa, CA 95401-8513 Tel. (707) 573-3160 email: dfisher@ecostewards.org 1998-99 Tree Planting In light of appalling worldwide deforestation, World Stewardship Institute through its BioDiversity Program promotes tree planting as a direct act of stewardship. During the Fall/Winter 1998-99 we completed an educational tree planting project in the Salmon Creek watershed, which drains into the Pacific Ocean, north of Bodega Bay, California. The trees were planted at Taylor Made Farms, which seeks to integrate reforestation with sustainable agriculture. Our reforestation consultants, Sarah Nossaman and Lisa Gonzales, working together with junior-high age students, their science teacher, Mike Heffernon, from the Salmon Creek Middle School, and the farm manager, planted Douglas Firs and other native conifers on exposed slopes. We were assisted in this work by small grants from the Sonoma County Fish and Wildlife Board and the Sonoma County Foundation. Planned as an educational forest, we hope to bring classes to Taylor Made Farms in future years to see the reality of sustainable forestry and agriculture. 
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