Nature Forward In The News
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Alexander Retirement
Lisa Alexander will retire effective January 2025 saying her role as Nature Forward’s executive director was “the most rewarding job of my career.”
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One year in: What’s up with Fairfax County’s plastic bag fee?
One year after Fairfax County implemented a 5¢ per plastic bag fee, how is it going? Learn about how much money is being collected and how the revenue generated is…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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