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Compass Wins Government Communicators Award
Asheville,NC -- The National Association of Government Communicators (NAGC) recently awarded Compass, the research magazine of the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS), a second place Blue Pencil award in the category of external magazines. NAGC is a national not-for-profit professional network of federal, state and local government employees who disseminate information within and outside government. Their annual Blue Pencil awards honor the best in print-related government communications products in 36 different categories. NAGC announced the award on April 29, 2008. Compass, published quarterly by the SRS science delivery group, is designed to inform a wide range of audiences about SRS research on focused topics. Now in its fourth year, the magazine has covered subjects ranging from the possibilities and challenges of biomass-based energy to the interaction of forests with global climate change. The region served, the Southeast, is one in which the pressures of development, lost timber economy, and climate change increasingly affect forest ecologies. Compass brings into focus the issues the region faces while highlighting the work of SRS researchers and collaborators to come up with solutions. Issue 9 of Compass, which focused on upland hardwood forests in the South, was submitted for the award. SRS staff writers contributing to the issue included Zoë Hoyle, Livia Marqués, Claire Payne, Perdita Spriggs, and Carol Whitlock. Art director Rodney Kindlund designed the magazine and took many of the photos for the issue. Current and past issues can be accessed online at http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/compass/archives.htm or ordered as hard copies through pubrequest@fs.fed.us.
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