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From: "DCCANEWS1" <DCCANEWS1@msn.com>

Sat, 28 Jan 2006

DCCA Meeting

February 6, 2006 7:30PM
 American Center of Polish Culture
2025 O Street
At DCCA’s February, 2006 meeting, our speaker will be James R. Lyons, who has been the Executive Director of the Casey Trees Endowment Fund, for the past three years. The mission of the Casey Trees Endowment Fund is to restore, enhance, and protect the tree canopy of the Nation's Capital. Casey Trees Programs include the following: Citizen Forester (a program offered free of charge to train volunteers to conduct tree inventories and to provide a variety of care for our city's trees), Tree Inventories (collecting detailed information about the condition and location of the city’s street trees and potentially plantable spaces and, in partnership with the National Park Service, the trees in the city’s Monumental Core), Community Tree Planting (enabling residents to plant and care for trees in their neighborhoods), and Student Internships (college students and recent college graduates, instructed about trees and tree care, serve as leaders for teams of high school interns and work in city neighborhoods caring for trees and teaching residents how they can help regreen DC). Jim Lyons has noted that Casey Trees now is “working with the city’s public school system and American Forests to establish GreenTech--our new education program to promote greener schoolyards while teaching GIS mapping and analysis. And recently we partnered with DC Greenworks and Blake Real Estate, Inc. to install the first greenroof on a commercial building in downtown DC. We’re working with city agencies to plant more trees in city parks and to improve the health of the Anacostia watershed. We’re working with businesses and the downtown BID to plant trees to improve streetscapes in the District’s commercial areas. And, we’ve hired high school students to maintain trees we’ve already planted and to help us plan for new plantings in the spring and fall…”

Jim Lyons served, during the Clinton Administration, as the USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, leading major reforms in the US Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service to reshape the nation’s forestry and conservation policies. Jim was a leading advocate for federal urban forestry programs and created the award-winning Urban Resources Partnership, which initiated open space protection and conservation activities in 13 US cities. While a staff member for the Committee on Agriculture in the U.S. House of Representatives, he helped craft the law that established the Forest Service's Urban Forestry Program. Jim has taught courses in environmental leadership and natural resources policy at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

The meeting will be held at the American Center of Polish Culture, which is located in a beautifully restored townhouse at 2025 O Street, N.W. Established in October 1991, the Center’s programs have included concerts, exhibitions, lectures, and seminars. Center staff also conduct educational programs for local children. Our host will be Dr. Monika Krol, the Center’s Executive Director. Appointed in September 2005, Dr. Krol’s focus will be on strengthening the center's membership base and on developing interesting programs in partnership with other cultural institutions.

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