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African Americans and the Environment: Stewardship and Sustainability - April 2007

On April 19, 2007, Radio talk show host Valerie Jackson moderated a town-hall style panel discussion on Global Warming and other environmental challenges, featuring national environmental leaders: Jerome Ringo, Chairman of the Board, National Wildlife Federation, Charles Jordan, Chairman of the Board, The Conservation Fund, Nia Robinson, Director, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, and Reverend Gerald Durley, Providence Missionary Baptist Church. This special event was held at the MLK Chapel at Morehouse College on April 19, 2007. Click here for pictures from this event.

Photography Exhibition

Last summer, the Wilderness Society proudly hosted "Southern Wildlands: Exceptional Remnants of the Great Eastern Forest." This exhibit featured 24 large color photographs by Kathryn Kolb of southeastern wilderness and other wildlands, with several images of virgin old growth forest from a variety of ecosystems.

These photographs were on display at Fernbank Museumof Natural History in Atlanta, July 9 through September 18, 2005.

Included in the exhibit were images from The Wilderness Society's Publication "Why Wilderness? What the Last Remaining Wild Lands of the Southern Appalachians Mean to the People of the Southeast." Interview from "Why Wilderness?" and other quotations from historical and contemporary authors as well as general information about specific forest environmentsaccompanied the photographs from Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. From                          Kathryn Kolb shows students her photographs of Southern
close-up TrilliumVaseyi to                                            wildlands at Fernbank Museum. (Summer 2005)
monolithic old growth buckeye to
abstract reflections in mountain streams, Kolb's artful style characterizes this distinguished collection of images. For a free copy of "Why Wilderness" please call 404-872-9453 x 22.                                                                 

112 Krog St., Suite 23, Atlanta, GA 30307 - 404-872-9453 ext. 13 - keeping_it_wild@tws.org