The seed gatherers - identification and collection of historic tree seed and reproduction for America's Historic Forests program - Focus

American Forests, Jan-Feb, 1991 by Elizabeth Chase Morrow, Richard J. Crouse

I've had the feeling' at the Wye Oak on Maryland's Eastern Shore, at the Treaty Oak in Jacksonville, Florida, in City Park in New Orleans, at Muir Woods in northern California, at the arboretum at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and at the National Arboretum in Washington, DC.

The legacy of America's Historic Forests is that in 200 years there will be thousands of protected old-growth groves across our nation, grown from the progeny of historic trees long gone. In each of these groves, the feeling' will be there.

BICENTENNIAL FORESTS

The Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, chaired by former Chief Justice Warren Burger, has unanimously voted to adopt America's Historic Forests as a major component in the commemoration of the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Citizen groups around the country will plant thousands of groves over the next five years as a permanent commemoration of their community's celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Constitution.