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News Releases
    1. Travelocity First Major Online Travel Company to Offer Carbon Offsets During Checkout -- Proceeds Help Regenerate Forests and Wetlands for Future Generations and to Reduce Carbon Impact on Global Warming. http://www.fws.gov/southeast/news/2006/r06-051.html

    2. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Regional Director Recipient of Presidential Rank Award One of Hamilton’s notable accomplishments includes championing the innovative concept of sequestering carbon dioxide gas on national wildlife refuges by planting native, hardwood trees. The agency has partnered with major power companies throughout the Southeast to replant wildlife refuges in native hardwoods that provide carbon credits to the companies and increases habitat for wildlife. http://southeast.fws.gov/news/2004/r04-025.html

    3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Honors 11 Partners with 2002 Southeast Regional Director’s Conservation Awards – American Electric Power has been actively involved in the protection and reforestation of 18,372 acres of bottomland hardwood forest in the Bushley Bayou Unit of the Catahoula National Wildlife. Refuge in Rhinehart, Louisiana. http://southeast.fws.gov/news/2003/r03-034.html

    4. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Presents Two Regional National Wetlands Conservation Awards for Wetlands Restoration in Coastal Louisiana. http://southeast.fws.gov/news/2003/r03-124.html

    5. Federal Fish and Wildlife Agency Presents Conservation Award to AEP for Reforestation Project. http://southeast.fws.gov/news/2001/r01-052.html

    6. AEP, Conservation Fund and Interior Acquire Delta Land, Begin Reforestation and Habitat Restoration. http://southeast.fws.gov/news/2001/r01-041.html

    7. Texaco to Fund Lower Mississippi River Valley Reforestation Project. http://southeast.fws.gov/news/2000/r00-015.html

    8. Reforestation Partnership with Illinova Corporation will bring 50 Million Trees to the Lower Mississippi River Valley – Creates Largest Private Restoration Program in North America. http://southeast.fws.gov/news/1999/r99-095.html

    9. A Record 5,300 Acres Reforested in Mississippi Delta near Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge. http://southeast.fws.gov/news/1999/r99-064.html

    10. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is Helping to Reforest the Delta With More Than Half a Million Seedlings to Restore Wetlands. http://southeast.fws.gov/news/1999/r99-033.html

    11. Two National Wildlife Refuges Receive $150,000 Reforestation Grant. http://southeast.fws.gov/news/1999/r99-017.html

 

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