22 November 2000

VANCOUVER, BC - The Moore Family Foundation and Symantec Corporation have joined the list of sponsors supporting the forward-thinking science funding and education programs of Global Forest in Vancouver.

Created by Intel Corporation co-founder Dr. Gordon Moore, the private San Francisco-based Foundation is dedicated to supporting conservation biology and basic forest scientific research. The Moore Family Foundation has committed to backing Global Forest's study of the endangered westslope cutthroat trout project in southeastern British Columbia for two years.

The grant from Symantec, a leading Internet security technology company near San Francisco, is given for Global Forest's Coastal Redwood Fog Project. This project explores the little understood relationship between Coastal Redwoods and the fog that blankets them for most of the summer.

"We have more than four dozen active science projects exploring the unknown wonders of the forest," says Global Forest founder Dr. Reese Halter. "And we are grateful to sponsors such as The Moore Family Foundation and Symantec for their generous support that is crucial in our continued success."

Tuscon and Banff-based Global Forest Science (www.globalforestscience.org) is a forest biology research institute. With an international multi-disciplinary team of 165 scientists, Global Forest Science is a world leader in forest science research and has often been likened to the Red Adair's of the forest biology world. Global Forest Sciences' many victories ranging from legislation to protect the threatened westslope cutthroat trout of British Columbia, protection of the world's largest ant colony, opening an international insect quarantine facility and helping to save New Zealand's multi billion dollar forestry and agriculture industries from the Australian painted apple moth. Global Forest Science is also dedicated to children's ecological education - visit GFAwesome.
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For more information, please contact:
Email: info@globalforestscience.org
Phone: 818.851.9682