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Seems like roads have been a focus area for several of our partners over the last few months.  Check these out:

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative:  Y2Y Newsletter

Check out this ultra-short video, "A Road Through the Woods." The film-maker, Jeremy Roberts, of Conservation Media, aptly refers to it as a meditation on road reclamation. It's based on the haunting Rudyard Kipling poem, "A Way Through the Woods."

World Forestry Day!  March 21. 

In 1971, member governments of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations agreed to support the annual observance of World Forestry Day.  The day was established to celebrate the importance of forests and the benefits derived from them.

Thursday March 22nd, was World Water Day, founded in 1993 by the United Nations. To honor that, we vow to continue working our tails off for clean water. Like, for example, through our Legacy Roads and Trails campaign (LRT) which has been the catalyst for reclaiming almost 3,000 miles of roads in the past four years nationally. That's a lot of sediment NOT going into our streams, clearin' it up for fish and for clean drinking water.

Here is an interesting story about a highway in Spain that was recently converted into a park.  How did they do it?  They put the road underground.  This is just one of many examples around the world where urban expressways are being reclaimed and turned into urban parklands. Check out the New York Times article here:

In Madrid’s Heart, Park Blooms Where a Freeway Once Blighted

We've blogged a few times about the proposed Serengeti Road, which would bisect the huge wildebeest migration in the northern end of the park. (If you need a refresher on the proposed road, see the NY Times article here. You can also see some of our earlier blogs on the Serengeti by Searching for "serengeti" on our website).

"Forest Road Reclamation & Repair Creates High Skill, High Wage Jobs" is the title of our latest fact sheet highlighting operators who benefit from road reclamation and maintenance projects, putting faces with work.