NAMES IN THE NEWS : Cartoonist Honored for Ecology
Jim Davis, creator of the comic strip “Garfield,” has been honored by the state of Indiana for helping to plant 35,000 seedlings.
Davis, whose mischievous cat appears in thousands of newspapers, won the National Arbor Day Foundation’s Good Steward Award.
Working with resources officials, he also has been involved in restoring prairie, forest and wetlands around his office in rural Muncie and has developed plans to plant millions more tree seedlings on marginal farmland.
“His attitude toward natural resources conservation is one all Hoosiers should share,” Natural Resources Director Patrick R. Ralston said.
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