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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?
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