Media Coverage

Everyone Dumps their Trash in this D.C. Forest. One Nonprofit Wants to Clean it Up

Fast Company

November 25, 2024

Rejuvenating Urban Forests

Voice of America

April 9, 2024

Group Collects 1,000 Pounds of Trash in one day to Help Clean DC

NBC News 4

February 26, 2024

Tire Dumping Epidemic: D.C. Residents Fight Back Against Illegal and Dangerous Trash

The Washington Informer

February 26, 2024

Local Forests are Failing to Produce the Next Generation of Trees

WAMU 88.5

December 20, 2023

OT Blount, Dedicated Steward of Ward 8’s Forestland Dies at Age 54

The Washington Informer

September 13, 2023

Lack Of Hiking Trails In Ward 8 Is An Environmental Injustice, Local Group Says

Dcist

March 21, 2023

“Environmental Racism” and the mysterious cars rusting in D.C. woods

The Washington Post

January 19, 2023

Hundreds of Tires Illegally Dumped in Anacostia Park

NBC News 4 Washington

December 26, 2022

Proposed plans would create wooded nature trail in DC’s Ward 8
WTOP Radio
May 18, 2022

Nonprofit steps into gap for DC woodland stewardship
Bay Journal
February 24, 2022

Oxon Run Neighbors Take on Clean-Up of National Park Land
DCist
June 18, 2021

Ward 8 held a block party to celebrate Juneteenth in style. And cleaned up the parkway.
ABC 7 WJLA
June 19, 2021

Cleansing the soul and restoring the spirit with a spot of forest bathing
The Washington Post
June 19, 2021

Grassroots Nonprofit Rejuvenates Ecology and Lives
East of the River
September 14, 2021

Do D.C.’s Poorest Neighborhoods Still Have Fewer Trees?
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU 88.5
January 5, 2021

A fight for forest equity in Southeast D.C. takes on new urgency amid pandemic
The Washington Post
December 5, 2020

Ward 8 residents fight invasive species, litter, and discrimination to keep their woods alive
Greater Greater Washington
October 28, 2019

A six-person army is fighting to clean up Ward 8
The DC Line
October 2, 2019

Ward 8 Woods’ Project clears 55 tons of trash
WUSA 9
May 23, 2019