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<TD class=BodyTextBlackBold colSpan=5>Announces
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<P>WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2009 -- Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack today "broke pavement" on
the inaugural USDA The People's Garden during a
ceremony on the grounds of U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) commemorating the 200th
birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The Secretary
declared the stretch of pavement permanently
closed and returned back to green, and
encouraged other Administration officials and
the general public to join in to protect the
Chesapeake watershed. </P>
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<P>"It is essential for the federal government
to lead the way in enhancing and conserving our
land and water resources," said Vilsack.
"President Obama has expressed his commitment to
responsible stewardship of our land, water and
other natural resources, and one way of
restoring the land to its natural condition is
what we are doing here today - "breaking
pavement" for The People's Garden." </P>
<P>The dedication comes on the 200th anniversary
of the birth of the 16th President of the United
States, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln founded the
Department of Agriculture in 1862 and referred
to it as "The People's Department" in his last
annual message to Congress. </P>
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<P>The commemoration of the Abraham Lincoln
Bicentennial is only the first step in the
Department of Agriculture's celebration of
President Lincoln's life. During today's
ceremony, Secretary Vilsack announced the goal
of creating a community garden at each USDA
facility worldwide. The USDA community garden
project will include a wide variety of garden
activities including Embassy window boxes, tree
planting, and field office plots. The gardens
will be designed to promote "going green"
concepts, including landscaping and building
design to retain water and reduce runoff; roof
gardens for energy efficiency; utilizing native
plantings and using sound conservation
practices. </P>
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<P>The USDA People's Garden announced today will
eliminate 1,250 square feet of unnecessary paved
surface at the USDA headquarters and return the
landscape to grass. The changes signal a removal
of impervious surfaces and improvement in water
management that is needed throughout the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed. </P>
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<P>The new garden will add 612 square feet of
planted space to an existing garden
traditionally planted with ornamentals. The
garden will showcase conservation practices that
all Americans can implement in their own
backyards and green spaces. As a component of
the garden, pollinator-friendly plantings will
not only provide important habitat for bees and
butterflies, but can serve as an educational
opportunity to help people understand the vital
role pollinators play in our food, forage and
all agriculture. The garden plot is adjacent to
the site of the USDA Farmer's Market. </P>
<P>About 100,000 streams and rivers thread
through the Chesapeake's 64,000-square-mile
watershed, which is home to almost 17 million
people in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Delaware, New York and the District of
Columbia. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest
estuary in North America, with a length of 200
miles and 11,684 miles of tidal shoreline, more
than the entire U.S. West Coast. The Chesapeake
Bay supports more than 3,600 species of plants,
fish and animals. </P>
<P>USDA leads efforts on public and private
lands to help reduce the impact of nutrient and
sediment pollution on wildlife habitat, forest
lands and water quality, as well as supporting
community involvement in managing natural
resources, urban green space and land
stewardship. For more information about USDA,
the People's Garden, the Chesapeake Bay
Watershed and other conservation and agriculture
related programs available in local communities,
visit a USDA Service Center or go to the USDA
Web page at <A title="Link opens in new window"
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href="http://www.usda.gov/"
target=extWindow>www.usda.gov</A>. </P>
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<P>Complementary education materials such as the
distance-learning project MonarchLIVE and
partnerships with schools and the North American
Pollinator Protection Campaign which will extend
the impact and reach of the USDA garden
initiative are available at <A
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target=extWindow>http://na.fs.fed.us/spfo/ce/content/special/links/index.cfm</A>.
And backyard conservation and other materials
also can be obtained by dialing 1-888-LANDCARE.
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<DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Laurie Davies Adams<BR>Executive
Director<BR><B>Pollinator Partnership </B><BR>423 Washington Street, 5th
floor<BR>San Francisco, CA
94111<BR>415-362-1137<BR>LDA@pollinator.org</FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial
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PTSIZE="12"><B><I>National Pollinator Week is June 22-28, 2009. <BR>Beecome
involved at <A
href="http://www.pollinator.org/">www.pollinator.org</A></I></FONT></B></DIV></FONT><br/><font style="color:black;font:normal 10pt arial,san-serif;"> <hr style="margin-top:10px"/><font color="#DC143C">Nothing says I love you like flowers! <b><a href="http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=florist&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000002"><font color="#DC143C">Find a florist near you now</font></a></font></b>.</font></DIV></BODY></HTML>