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Planet Home Lending Partners with the National Forest Foundation for Third Year
National lender aims to plant 100,000 trees in 2021
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MERIDEN, Conn., April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Planet Home Lending, LLC, a national mortgage lender and servicer, has partnered with the National Forest Foundation (NFF), the official nonprofit partner of the U.S. Forest Service, for a third year and will fund the planting of 100,000 trees in 2021.
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As part of the Planet with a Purpose program, Planet Home Lending will participate in NFF s 50 Million For Our Forests, a tree-planting campaign dedicated to planting 50 million trees in America s National Forests. This partnership will fund post-fire planting, reestablish forest cover and improve watershed health.
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Irreplaceable 1,000-year-old Native American rock carvings vandalized in Georgia s Chattahoochee National Forest Christine Fernando, USA TODAY © U.S. Forest Service Rock carvings, or petroglyphs, created by Creek and Cherokee people more than 1,000 years ago can be found in Georgia s Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests. The U.S. Forest Service announced some of the carvings had been vandalized in a statement Monday.
Thousand-year-old Native American rock carvings have been vandalized in Georgia s Chattahoochee National Forest, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
The series of more than 100 rock carvings, or petroglyphs, in the forest s Track Rock Gap were created by Creek and Cherokee people beginning more than 1,000 years ago. Etched on soapstone boulders in Union City, Georgia, the carvings make up one of the most significant rock art sites in the southeastern United States and are part of a protected historic site.
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Ancient Native American Site Is Defaced in Georgia Forest
Rock faces and boulders bearing figure carvings called petroglyphs were scratched or dabbed with paint, the United States Forest Service said.
Damage caused by vandalism to figure carvings, or petroglyphs, on boulders at Track Rock Gap in the Chattahoochee National Forest in northern Georgia.Credit.U.S. Forest Service
April 7, 2021
An ancient site of carved boulders and rock formations in a Georgia forest that has long been sacred to Native Americans has been vandalized with paint and deep scratches, the United States Forest Service said.
The boulders are part of the Track Rock Gap site in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests, a protected area of more than 800,000 acres where more than 100 figure carvings known as petroglyphs were made on soapstone boulders by Native Americans in precolonial times, the service said.
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