Nature Forward In The News
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Nature Forward Quarterly Summer 2026
The Potomac River is named the #1 Most Endangered River in the U.S. Learn how you can take action to protect it.
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Audubon Society Keeps Name Despite Slavery Ties, Dividing Birders
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The New York Times
The national bird conservation group said it would “reckon with the racist legacy of John James Audubon,” a naturalist and illustrator who was an enslaver, but voted to keep the namesake.
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Opinion: A local Audubon Society has already changed its name
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The Washington Post
Although the National Audubon Society failed to change its name, Nature Forward, a.k.a. the Audubon Naturalist Society in Montgomery County, for which I volunteer, has already “moved forward.
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Speak up for Equity and Stewardship in Fairfax County Parks!
We need your help again this year to ask our Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to better fund equity and stewardship programs in our Park Authority!
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D.C. Audubon Society ‘Will No Longer Carry The Name Of An Enslaver’
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DCist
More than a year ago, another local Audubon group became the first in the country to announce it would change its name. The former Audubon Naturalist Society, an independent conservation group, is now Nature Forward.
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Conservation groups drop Audubon name in ‘commitment to anti-racism’
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BIRDGUIDES
Elsewhere in the US, the Chicago, Seattle and Madison chapters have also committed to changing their names, as has the unaffiliated Audubon Naturalist Society. The latter is now goes by Nature Forward.
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I270, I495 Widening Hits Roadblock; Developer Ends Involvement
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MyMCMedia
Several governmental officials and environmental groups, including Nature Forward, cheered Thursday’s announcement from Transurban that it “has decided not to proceed with the Maryland Express Lanes Project” that includes the widening of the I270 and I495.
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