A fight for forest equity in Southeast D.C. takes on new urgency amid pandemic
Shaw Turner and others with Ward 8 Woods Conservancy look for trash in Oxon Run Park on Oct. 28. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
APACC member Ward 8 Woods was featured in an article in the Washington Post (here) on December 5, 2020. We have included the first couple of paragraphs and a link to the original content.
By Gabriel Popkin
Dec. 5, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. EST
On an overcast but mild morning in late October, Nathan Harrington pulled up at a dead end in the southern reaches of D.C. His gray pickup truck carried a magnet with the name of the Ward 8 Woods Conservancy — the organization Harrington founded and directs — and a collage of left-wing and environmental bumper stickers.
His work crew of three men — Shaw Turner, Davon Abney and Henderson Blount — were already assembled. Soon they donned bright yellow vests and plunged into the woods. Above them towered magnificent sycamores, tulip trees and even a rare swamp white oak. Oxon Run, one of D.C.’s largest free-flowing streams east of the river, beckoned with wide sandbars and bluffs that evoke a far wilder place than the heart of a major city.
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